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18 U.S.C. § 1347 — Health care fraud
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**(a)** Whoever knowingly and willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice—
(1) to defraud any health care benefit program; or
(2) 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,
in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. If the violation results in serious bodily injury (as defined in [section 1365 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1365&num=0&edition=prelim)), such person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and if the violation results in death, such person shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.
**(b)** 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.
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**(a)** Whoever knowingly and willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice—
(1) to defraud any health care benefit program; or
(2) 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,
in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. If the violation results in serious bodily injury (as defined in [section 1365 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1365&num=0&edition=prelim)), such person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and if the violation results in death, such person shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.
**(b)** 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.
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**(a)** Whoever, with reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of death or bodily injury and under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to such risk, tampers with any consumer product that affects interstate or foreign commerce, or the labeling of, or container for, any such product, or attempts to do so, shall—
(1) in the case of an attempt, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
(2) if death of an individual results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both;
(3) if serious bodily injury to any individual results, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both; and
(4) in any other case, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
**(b)** Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person, taints any consumer product or renders materially false or misleading the labeling of, or container for, a consumer product, if such consumer product affects interstate or foreign commerce, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
**(c)**
(1) Whoever knowingly communicates false information that a consumer product has been tainted, if such product or the results of such communication affect interstate or foreign commerce, and if such tainting, had it occurred, would create a risk of death or bodily injury to another person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(2) As used in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the term “communicates false information” means communicates information that is false and that the communicator knows is false, under circumstances in which the information may reasona
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**(a) Creation; deposits; transfers from Treasury** There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund” (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Trust Fund”). The Trust Fund shall consist of such gifts and bequests as may be made as provided in [section 401(i)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section401/i/1&num=0&edition=prelim), and such amounts as may be deposited in, or appropriated to, such fund as provided in this part. There are hereby appropriated to the Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for each fiscal year thereafter, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 100 per centum of—
(1) the taxes imposed by sections 3101(b) and 3111(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to wages reported to the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate pursuant to subtitle F of such Code after December 31, 1965, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury by applying the applicable rates of tax under such sections to such wages, which wages shall be certified by the Commissioner of Social Security on the basis of records of wages established and maintained by the Commissioner of Social Security in accordance with such reports; and
(2) the taxes imposed by section 1401(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to self-employment income reported to the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate on tax returns under subtitle F of such Code, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury by applying the applicable rate of tax under such section to such self-employment income, which self-employment income shall be certified by the Commission
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Page 366
TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1346
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘of’’.
Pub. L. 101–647, § 3542, which directed insertion of a
comma after ‘‘of this title’’, was repealed by Pub. L.
103–322, § 330011(k).
1988—Pub. L. 100–690 inserted ‘‘or of section 287, 371
(insofar as such violation involves a conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States or any agency thereof), or 1001
of this title’’ after ‘‘violation of this chapter,’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1994 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330011(k), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 2145, provided that the amendment made by
that section is effective Nov. 29, 1990.
§ 1346. Definition of ‘‘scheme or artifice to de-
fraud’’
For the purposes of this chapter, the term
‘‘scheme or artifice to defraud’’ includes a
scheme or artifice to deprive another of the in-
tangible right of honest services.
(Added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7603(a), Nov.
18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4508.)
§ 1347. Health care fraud
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully executes,
or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice—
(1) to defraud any health care benefit pro-
gram; or
(2) 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,
in connection with the delivery of or payment
for health care benefits, items, or services, shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than 10 years, or both. If the violation results in
serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365
of this title), such person shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years,
or both; and if the violation results in death,
such person shall b
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