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35-43-5-7.2. Children’s health insurance
fraud.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a
person who knowingly or intentionally:
(1) files a children’s health insurance pro-
gram claim, including an electronic claim,
in violation of IC 12-17.6;
(2) obtains payment from the children’s
health insurance program under IC 12-
17.6 by means of a false or misleading
oral or written statement or other fraudu-
lent means;
(3) acquires a provider number under the
children’s health insurance program except
as authorized by law;
(4) alters with intent to defraud or falsifies
documents or records of a provider (as
defined in 42 CFR 1002.301) that are
required to be kept under the children’s
health insurance program; or
(5) conceals information for the purpose of
applying for or receiving unauthorized
payments from the children’s health insur-
ance program;
commits insurance fraud, a Class Amisdemeanor.
(b) The offense described in subsection (a)
is:
(1) a Level 6 felony if the fair market value
of the offense is at least seven hundred
fifty dollars ($750) and less than fifty thou-
sand dollars ($50,000); and
(2) a Level 5 felony if the fair market value
of the offense is at least fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000).
35-43-5-8. Fraud on financial institutions.
(a) A person who knowingly executes, or
attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice:
(1) to defraud a state or federally char-
tered or federally insured financial insti-
tution; or
(2) to obtain any of the money, funds, cred-
its, assets, securities, or other property
owned by or under the custody or control
of a state or federally chartered or feder-
ally insured financial institution by means
of false or fraudulent pretenses, represen-
tations, or promises;
commits a Level 5 felony.
(b) As used in this section, the term “state or
federally chartered or federally insured financial
institution” means:
(1) an institution with accounts insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
(2) a credit union with accounts insured by
the National Credit Union Administration
Board;
(3) a federal home loan bank or a member,
as defined in Section 2 of the Federal
Home Loan BankAct (12 U.S.C. 1422), as
in effect on December 31. 1990, of the
Federal Home Loan Bank System; or
(4) a bank, banking association, land bank,
intermediate credit bank, bank for coop-
eratives, production credit association,
land bank association, mortgage associa-
tion, trust company, savings bank, or other
banking or financial institution organized
or operating under the laws of the United
States or of the state.
The term does not include a lender licensed under
IC 24-4.5.
35-43-5-12. Check fraud.
(a) As used in this section, “financial institu-
tion” refers to a state or federally chartered bank,
savings bank, savings association, or credit union.
(b) A person who knowingly or intentionally
obtains property, through a scheme or artifice,
with intent to defraud:
(1) by issuing or delivering a check, a
draft, an electronic debit, or an order on a
financial institution:
(A) knowing that the check, draft,
order, or electronic debit will not be
paid or honored by the financial insti-
tution upon presentment in the usual
course of business;
(B) using false or altered evidence of
identity or residence;
(C) using a false or altered account
number; or
(D) using a false or altered check, draft,
order or electronic instrument;
(2) by:
(A) depositing the minimum initial
deposit required to open an account;
and
(B) either making no additional
