Sal Barbera, a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, has served as CEO of six hospitals-from 95 to 400+ beds-in both the for-profit and non-profit sector in Florida, Nevada, Louisiana, and Kentucky. He was involved in creating and implementing an integrated delivery system for the largest non-profit system in the region and became nationally recognized for his expertise in physician/hospital integration strategies. He then served as the CEO for a physician practice management company in Florida for one of the largest proprietary health systems in the country. His expertise is in hospital management and governance, hospital-physician relationships, physician practice management, Stark and anti-kickback regulations.

In 1997, Sal filed a qui tam action resulting in the largest recovery of a False Claims Act the United States has obtained from a single hospital from alleged violations of the Stark Statute. United States of America ex. rel. Sal A. Barbera v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation was settled in 2004 with Tenet agreeing to pay the United States $22.5 million to resolve allegations that one of its facilities improperly billed Medicare for millions of dollars for referrals provided by physicians with whom the hospital had prohibited financial arrangements. These arrangements were in the form of employment relationships and compensation schemes alleged above fair market value that provided unlawful inducements for patient referrals.

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