Don Barbo is a Managing Director with VMG Health and leads the firm’s Litigation & Disputes valuation practice. He has performed valuations exclusively for the healthcare industry for over 23 years involving mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, partnership transactions, leasing arrangements, financial reporting matters, divorces, diminution of value, and commercial damages. His extensive healthcare valuation engagements have included hospitals (acute care, long-term care, critical access, behavioral health, and surgical), physician practices (variety of primary care and hospital-based), ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, cardiac catheter labs, pathology and clinical labs, cancer treatment centers, and dialysis centers. Barbo has also performed engagements for various contracts between hospitals and physicians, including medical director agreements, on-call agreements, lithotripsy service agreements, professional services agreements, and management services agreements.

Barbo also serves as an expert witness in litigation matters for his clients and has an extensive testifying experience in various state and federal courts. His testifying experience involves a wide range of issues including whistle-blower actions, breach of contracts, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy and distressed businesses, and marital divorces. He has spoken extensively to various legal and valuation organizations and has published articles regarding healthcare business valuation issues. Prior to his valuation career, he served as the chief financial officer for a physician practice management company that provides management services to a variety of physician practices. Before that, he served as the controller/financial officer for various emerging companies. He began his professional career as an auditor with a Big 4 national accounting firm.

Barbo is a CPA, holds the Accreditation in Business Valuation from the AICPA, is a member of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), and is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). He also served on the Technical Advisory Board for the AICPA’s Forensics & Valuation Section Consulting Digest and the Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert newsletter. He holds a BBA in Accounting from Texas Tech University, and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

 

Service Lines

Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Business Enterprise Valuation
Investigation, Audit, & Appeals Response
Financial Reporting Valuation
Intangible Assets Valuation
Management Services Organizations (MSOs) Valuation
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Succession Planning
Value-Based Care Strategy & Valuation

Areas of Expertise

Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Health Systems & Hospitals
Laboratories
Medical Device & Life Sciences
Post-Acute Care
Physician Practices
Risk-Bearing Organizations & Health Plans
Urgent Care & Freestanding EDs
Behavioral Health
Kidney Care
Hospital-Based Medicine
Imaging & Radiology
Intellectual Property & Commercialization
Medical Aesthetics & Dermatology
Ophthalmology & Eyecare
Oncology
Pharmacy
Medical Transport

Credentials
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV)
Testimony Experience

In addition to being designated as an expert witness in several cases that were resolved prior to his testimony, Mr. Barbo has provided deposition and/or trial testimony in the following cases:

  • Cooper Clinic, P.A., Plaintiff, vs. Mercy Health, et al., Defendants; In the Circuit Court of Sebastian County, Arkansas Fort Smith Division, No. CV 2013-766(I); Deposition given on February 23, 2017
  • Nephrology Associates of Upland and Pomona, Plaintiff, vs. HLA M. Myint Maung Hwang, M.D., Defendant; In the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles – East District, Case No. KC067036; Deposition given on July 28, 2016
  • Stephen F. Emery, M.D., et al., Claimants, vs. Meridian Surgical Partners, LLC, et al., Respondents; American Arbitration Association, Case No. 65-20-1400-0026; Testified at arbitration hearing on June 17, 2016
  • Dr. Sang Wu, Plaintiff, vs. ProPath Associates, ProPath Services, L.L.P., Rosemary E. Detweiler, et al., Defendants; In the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, Cause No. 352-270639-14; Deposition given February 10, 2016
  • Stratus Anesthesia Associates Fort Worth PLLC f/k/a Ascendant Anesthesia Fort Worth, PLLC, Plaintiff, vs. Aaron Shiraz, M.D. and Trinity Anesthesia Professionals, PLLC, Defendants; In the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, Cause No. 153-280253-15; Testified at arbitration hearing on December 21, 2015
  • United States of America, Plaintiff, ex rel., Thomas Reed Simmons, Relator, vs. Meridian Surgical Partners, LLC, et al., Defendants; In the United States District Court Middle District of Tennessee of the Honorable Judge Campbell, Civil Action No. 3:11-cv-00439; Deposition given March 28, 2014
  • Clifford Barry Jones, M.D., Plaintiff vs. Holly Kiyomi Hirai, Defendant; In the Kent County Circuit Court of the Honorable Patricia D. Gardner, Kent County, Michigan, No. 12-00447-DO; Deposition given April 25, 2013
  • John McConnell, M.D., Plaintiff vs. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Coventry Health Care National Network, Inc., and First Health Group Corp. et al., Defendants; In the District Court of Dallas County, Texas, 298th Judicial District, No. 11-09509; Deposition given March 27, 2013
  • Harish Chandna, M.D., Dakshesh “Kumar” Parikh, M.D., and Ajay Gaalla, M.D., Plaintiffs vs. Citizens Medical Center, David P. Brown; et al., Defendants; In the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division, Civil Action No. 6:10-CV-00014; Deposition given August 9, 2012
  • Denver NMR, Inc., Plaintiff vs. Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado, d/b/a Centura Health – St. Anthony North Hospital, James F. Dover and Total Healthcare, Defendants; In the District Circuit, City and County of Denver, Colorado, Case No. 2006CV8454; Deposition given November 9, 2011; Trial testimony given December 8, 2011
  • Joe Samuel Bailey, Laserscopic Spinal Centers of America, Inc.; et al., Plaintiffs vs. James S. St. Louis, D.O., Michael W. Perry, M.D., E.F.O. Holdings, LP; et al., Defendants; In the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, in and for Hillsborough County, Civil Division, Case No. 06-08498 Division L; Deposition given June 24, 2010; Trial testimony given May 2011
  • Steven Hebert, M.D., Plaintiff vs. Ameripath DFW 5.01(a) Corporation, Defendant; In the District Court, Collin County, Texas, 199th Judicial District, No. 199-03680-2009; Testified at Arbitration Hearing January 11, 2010
  • Philip Bronowitz, M.D., Plaintiff vs. MedicalEdge Healthcare Group, P.A., MedicalEdge Healthcare Group, Inc., Carl Soderstrom and Clay Heighten, M.D., Defendants; In the District Court, Dallas County, Texas, 160th Judicial District, No. 06-06160-H; Deposition given January 29, 2009
  • Patrick Roughneen, M.D., Plaintiff, v. Srinivas Paranandi, M.D., Bob Lumpkins, Texas Health Resources, Harris Methodist HEB, and COR Specialty Associates of North Texas, P.A., and David Carter, M.D., Defendants; In the District Court, Dallas County, Texas, 14th Judicial District, No. 06-05004; Deposition given July 17, 2008
  • In the Matter of Bradley J. Bergquist and Angela Kendrick, et al., Petitioners, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent; United States Tax Court, Docket Nos. 17530-06, 17535-06, 17537-06, 17541-06, 17545-06, 17549-06; Trial testimony given September 2007
  • Arcadian Health Plan, Inc. d/b/a Texas Community Care, Plaintiff, v. PSO Health Services, LLC d/b/a Physicians Health Choice, et al. Defendants; United States District Court Dallas, Western District of Texas, Austin Division, Civil Action No. 1:06-CV-01005-LY; Deposition given September 2007
  • Southwest Florida Heart Group, P.A., Debtor, and Louis X Amato, as the Chapter 11 Trustee for Southwest Florida Heart Group, P.A., Plaintiff, v. Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., d/b/a/ Henderson Franklin and Guy E. Whitesman, Defendants; United States Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, Case No.: 9:05-bk-17167-ALP; Deposition given June 2007
  • In the Matter of the Marriage of W.E. Burns and Linda Burns; 300th Judicial Court, Brazoria County, Texas, Cause No. 26887; Report issued July 2005; Deposition given November 2005; Trial testimony given December 2005
  • Dwayne V. Smith, M.D., v. Preferred Surgical Care, P.S.C.; Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kenton Circuit Court; Case No. 02-CI-2290; Deposition given June 2004; Trial testimony given June 2004; Report issued October 2003
  • Steve Moody Micro Services, Inc., v. Kristina Rucker d/b/a MoldLab, et al; United States District Court, Northern District of Texas Dallas Division; Case No. 3:02-CV-02560-D; Deposition given March 2004; Report issued January 2004
  • ProPath Services, L.L.P. v. Quest Diagnostic Clinical Laboratories, Inc.; Federal Court, Northern District of Texas, Case No. 3-00-CV2391-H; Deposition given January 2002; Report issued October 200
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