Health care fraud
United States Code
Citation analytics
How this statute sits in the citation network, derived from CiteLaw's graph of published opinions.
★Landmark AuthorityTop 1% most-cited · cited by 1,017 decisions
1,017
Citing decisions
6+
Courts citing
Citations by decade
3
239
464
311
1990s2000s2010s2020s
Courts citing this statute
Most recently cited by10
- 2026United States v. Akula 5th Cir.
- 2026J-O-A BIA
- 2026United States v. Young 5th Cir.
- 2026United States v. Tarek Fakhuri 6th Cir.
- 2026United States v. Mark Grenkoski 6th Cir.
- 2026United States v. Motley 9th Cir.
- 2026Samirkumar Shah v. 3rd Cir.
- 2026SHAPIRO E.D. Pa.
- 2026Manuel W.D. La.
- 2026United States v. Richard Davis 4th Cir.
Counts reflect decisions in the CiteLaw corpus and may lag very recent opinions.
Text
to defraud any health care benefit program; or to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any health care benefit program, With respect to violations of this section, a person need not have actual knowledge of this section or specific intent to commit a violation of this section. Whoever knowingly and willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice— (Source: (Added Pub. L. 104–191, title II, § 242(a)(1), Aug. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2016; amended Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10606(b), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 1008.))