HOUSTON – A former Montgomery County doctor was sentenced to serve seven years in prison for his role in fraudulently billing health care programs for at least $5 million. Rezik Saqer, 66, had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud on July 2, 2019. During the prosecution, the patient revealed that Saqer’s practice of writing unlawful prescriptions, and those allegations led to the state charges against Saqer, prosecutors said. Evidence revealed at the federal sentencing hearing that Saqer’s health care fraud scheme involved having the patient submit unnecessary and dangerous procedures and tests, prosecutors claimed. Those procedures were conducted by Saqer’s unlicensed staff and fraudulently billed to health care providers as having been provided by him, prosecutors said.