A Chicago doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud federal health programs at the city’s Sacred Heart Hospital appealed his three-month sentence to the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday. Law360: acquitted

A doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals as part of an elaborate scheme defrauding federal health programs at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital was sentenced to three months in prison Tuesday over prosecutors’ objections. Law360: acquitted