Theoretical and praxeological principles use of specialized knowledge in the investigation of state-funded health care crimes.

Provides a forensic analysis of budget crimes in the field of health care, clarifies the nature of these crimes and identifies a variety of areas of criminal encroachment. Some elements of the forensic characterization of the crime that basically determine the further use of specialized knowledge, in particular, the structure of methods of committing crimes and their classification, the types of traces left while committing the crimes related to health care public funding. The general terms and the structure of the studied scientific category are characterized. It has been established that budget crimes in general and their varieties in some areas have been studied by domestic and former Soviet scientists from both forensic and criminal law points of view. Crimes related to public funding of health care were considered partly in the framework of budget crimes study and mainly covered the misuse of budget funds, crimes committed by officials, public procurement, and so on. It has been proved that this area of criminal activity is much wider. It was found out that offenses related to the misuse of budget funds in the field of health care included criminal acts committed in the preparation, review, approval and implementation of budgets, as well as in the control of budget execution. Some scientific achievements were proved to have lost their relevance due to the legislative changes, reform of the health care system, redistribution of allocated budget funds, constant transformations of state medical programs, such as: reimbursement of funds spent on drugs; provision of medicines to patients with diabetes and cancer; program for the purchase of consumables and equipment for hemodialysis, and so on.