HOUSTON – A Houston transplant doctor reportedly turned himself in to federal authorities for allegedly manipulating patient records.<\/p>\n
Houston doctor accused of stopping organ transplants <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/a>, 66-year-old John Stevenson Bynon Jr. is charged with five counts of making false statements in health care matters.<\/p>\n Dr. Bynon was said to be the Director of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Surgical Director for Liver Transplantation at Memorial Hermann Health System’s Texas Medical Center.<\/p>\n The DOJ says Bynon’s patients were placed on a waitlist for organ donations, but they weren’t eligible for donations due to false statements on their medical records.<\/p>\n Also, because of the alleged false statements, patients continued receiving benefits from Medicare as if they were eligible to receive donor organ offers.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The DOJ did not provide other details at the time of this report.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The DOJ says Bynon made his initial court appearance on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n If convicted, Bynon faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each of his five charges.<\/p>\n The Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of Texas.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A Houston transplant doctor reportedly turned himself in to federal authorities for allegedly manipulating patient records.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-152718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}