August 13, 2018

Nurse practitioner Sandra Haar, founder and chief executive officer of Horisons Unlimited, a non-profit provider of health and dental services in Merced, California, pleaded guilty to health care fraud and conspiracy to receive kickbacks.  Haar’s scheme billed for services that were not rendered or were medically unnecessary, even submitting bills for office visits with doctors when, in fact, patients were met in local parking lots and given Suboxone, an opioid medication, in plastic baggies.   Haar also received thousands in kickbacks from a laboratory in exchange for sending Horisons patients to the lab.  ED CA (later sentencing and civil settlement here)

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