Dominic Trumbo, 45, of Lexington, Kentucky, a patient recruiter, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for receiving more than $1 million in illegal kickback payments from numerous home health agencies from around the country in exchange for providing information on Medicare beneficiaries to home health agencies, who then used that information to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare. He was also ordered to pay $1,010,552 in restitution and forfeit $203,300. According to the evidence presented at trial, Trumbo, owner of Trumbo Consulting Agency of Stafford, Virginia, recruited, or paid others to recruit, more than 4,000 Medicare beneficiaries for multiple home health companies across the country. The evidence showed that Trumbo instructed his employees to cold call Medicare beneficiaries and offer incentives to induce them to sign up for home health care. Trumbo then sold the Medicare beneficiary information to home health agencies in exchange for illegal kickback payments. The evidence at trial further showed that Trumbo and his co-conspirators created sham contracts and fake invoices in an attempt to conceal their scheme to defraud Medicare.
