{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-8-508","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Criminal Law § 8–508","heading":"","body":"(a) In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.\n(b) “False representation” means the knowing and willful:\n(1) concealing, falsifying, or omitting of a material fact;\n(2) making of a materially false or fraudulent statement; or\n(3) use of a document that contains a statement of material fact that the user knows to be false or fraudulent.\n(c) (1) “Health care service” means health or medical care procedures, goods, or services that:\n(i) provide testing, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease or dysfunction; or\n(ii) dispense drugs, medical devices, medical appliances, or medical goods for the treatment of human disease or dysfunction.\n(2) “Health care service” includes any procedure, goods, or service that is a required benefit of a State health plan.\n(d) “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.\n(e) “Serious injury” means an injury that:\n(1) creates a substantial risk of death;\n(2) causes serious permanent or serious protracted disfigurement;\n(3) causes serious permanent or serious protracted loss of the function of any body part, organ, or mental faculty;\n(4) causes serious permanent or serious protracted impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ; or\n(5) involves extreme physical pain.\n(f) (1) “State health plan” includes:\n(i) the State Medical Assistance Plan established in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1939;\n(ii) a medical assistance plan established by the State; or\n(iii) 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.\n(2) “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.","path":["Article - Criminal Law"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcr\u0026section=8-508","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:57:08Z","sha256":"f01cd417a304af01940e5e884a4b32737147fb13c94873ed2e147ed2ec001fa3","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-8-505","next":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-8-509"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}