Minnetonka attorney sentenced for health care fraud conspiracy

A Minnetonka attorney has been sentenced to federal prison for health care fraud.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 38-year-old William Kyle Sutor III was sentenced to 16 months in prison and one year of supervised release.

According to Sutor’s guilty plea and court documents, he engaged in a scheme to defraud providers of automobile insurance policies between 2015 and 2016. Specifically, he conspired with chiropractors and patient recruiters, also known as "runners." The chiropractor would pay the runner a fee for each person the runner brought to the chiropractor’s clinic to become a patient, and Sutor would pay the runner a fee for every person that became a client of his.

The attorney’s office said patients ended up getting paid to receive chiropractic services. Sutor, chiropractors and runners took steps to conceal their scheme, including making kickback payments in cash or checks written to appear as being for legitimate legal services.

In his plea agreement, Sutor admitted to sending an attorney demand letter on behalf of a recruited patient to an insurance company for chiropractic services he knew hadn’t been performed.