HOUSTON — A Houston doctor is facing federal charges for allegedly falsifying medical records to make potential transplant recipients ineligible for organ donations, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ said John Stevenson Bynon Jr., 66, has surrendered to federal authorities on five counts of making false statements in health care matters. He was due in court at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. The DOJ said a grand jury returned the indictment on January 14.
Bynon is the former director of abdominal organ transplantation and surgical director for liver transplantation at Memorial Hermann Health System in the Texas Medical Center…