New York legal term
Health care in New York Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New York legislative session
In New York criminal law, “Health care” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New York criminal code.
What does “Health care” mean in New York criminal law?
"Health care" means the professional services provided to a person experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose by a health care professional licensed, registered or certified under title eight of the education law or article thirty of the public health law who, acting within his or her lawful scope of practice, may provide diagnosis, treatment or emergency services for a person experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose. 4. (N.Y. Penal Law § 220.78)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Aggravated interference with health care services in the first degree
- Aggravated interference with health care services in the second degree
- Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the first degree
- Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the second degree
- Health care fraud in the fifth degree
- Health care fraud in the first degree
- Health care fraud in the fourth degree
- Health care fraud in the second degree
- Health care fraud in the third degree
- Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree
Related terms in the same statutes
This reference is informational and is not legal advice.