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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-55-103

Unlawful acts — Classification

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Dilday v. State (2007)

Most recently applied in Dilday v. State (February 2007)

Acts 1979, No. 823, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-4403; Acts 1993, No. 1291, § 2; 2003, No. 1122, § 1; 2007, No. 827, § 49; 2017, No. 978, § 3; 2019, No. 916, § 4.

(1) It is unlawful for any person to commit Medicaid fraud as prohibited by § 5-55-111.

(2) Medicaid fraud is a: Class C felony if the aggregate amount of payments illegally claimed is two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or more but less than five thousand dollars ($5,000);

(3) Class B felony if the aggregate amount of payments illegally claimed is five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more but less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); and

(4) Class A felony if the aggregate amount of payments illegally claimed is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more.

(5) Otherwise, Medicaid fraud is a Class A misdemeanor.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.