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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="8-508" title_number="8" title_name="Fraud and Related Crimes" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Public Fraud">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“False representation” means the knowing and willful:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>concealing, falsifying, or omitting of a material fact;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>making of a materially false or fraudulent statement; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>use of a document that contains a statement of material fact that the user knows to be false or fraudulent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Health care service” means health or medical care procedures, goods, or services that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provide testing, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease or dysfunction; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>dispense drugs, medical devices, medical appliances, or medical goods for the treatment of human disease or dysfunction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Health care service” includes any procedure, goods, or service that is a required benefit of a State health plan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Representation” includes an acknowledgment, certification, claim, ratification, report of demographic statistics, encounter data, enrollment claims, financial information, health care services available or rendered, and qualifications of a person rendering health care or ancillary services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Serious injury” means an injury that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>creates a substantial risk of death;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>causes serious permanent or serious protracted disfigurement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>causes serious permanent or serious protracted loss of the function of any body part, organ, or mental faculty;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>causes serious permanent or serious protracted impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>involves extreme physical pain.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“State health plan” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the State Medical Assistance Plan established in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1939;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a medical assistance plan established by the State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a private health insurance carrier, health maintenance organization, managed care organization as defined in § 15-101 of the Health - General Article, health care cooperative or alliance, or other person that provides or contracts to provide health care services that are wholly or partly reimbursed by or are a required benefit of a health plan established in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1939 or by the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“State health plan” includes a person that provides or contracts or subcontracts to provide health care services for an entity described in paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
