The federal government has no general Health Care Fraud statute which makes it a crime to willfully execute a "scheme of artifice" intended to defraud a "health care benefit" program.

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The federal government does have a general Health Care Fraud statute, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 1347, which makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully execute, or attempt to execute, a scheme or artifice 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.

The Federal Government Has No General Health Care Fraud Statute