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Dr. Dana Forgione is the Janey S. Briscoe Endowed Chair in the Business of Health at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Forgione leads the MBA in the Business of Health program--a participant in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Higher Education Network. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Department of Pediatrics, and in the School of Public Health, all at the University of Texas. Dr. Forgione previously served as advisor to the MBA in Healthcare Management program at the University of Baltimore, and he held a joint appointment in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, where he taught in the Doctor of Pharmacy program.
He is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the Medical Group Management Association. He has served as the senior editor of Research in Healthcare Financial Management, and as a columnist for the Journal of Health Care Finance, and San Antonio Medicine.
Dr. Forgione is a consultant to healthcare organizations and has analyzed the financial and operating performance of more than 5,500 hospitals throughout the United States. His litigation support and consulting work was used twice by the U.S. Congress in national healthcare policy deliberations, and by the Texas Attorney General in landmark hospital charity care legislation. He has also worked in collaboration with the EuroDRG project for eventual convergence of healthcare payment systems throughout the European Union. He was invited by the government of South Korea as an international expert to address more than 500 government and healthcare professionals in their rollout of a new national healthcare payment system. He also provided input for the new physician specialist payment system reforms for the country of Belgium. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Morningside Ministries--an award-winning nonprofit long-term healthcare organization, successfully completing nearly $100 million in new external financing, including a $50 million tax-exempt public bond issue.
Dr. Forgione developed and teaches a graduate-level Seminar in Medicare Regulation, as well as Accounting for Healthcare Organizations, and a doctoral research seminar in Government & Nonprofit Accounting. He has conducted professional training programs on Medicare regulation, healthcare fraud and abuse regulations, physician self-referral prohibitions, governmental auditing, forensic accounting, electronic data recovery and related issues to hundreds of accountants, auditors, regulators, fraud examiners, U.S. Internal Revenue Service agents, physicians, surgeons, allied healthcare professionals and U.S. Veterans Health Administratin Inspectors General.
He has more than 137 professional publications, 46 editorial and reviewing roles, 151 instances of television debates, national radio network commentary and other news / media coverage to his credit. His books have been used in more than 75 colleges and universities throughout the U.S. He is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (2000–present), Who's Who in the World (2002–present), Who's Who in America (2002–present), Who's Who in Finance and Industry (2001–2009), and Who's Who in American Education (2005–2008). He earned his BBA in accounting and information systems, MBA and MS in accounting, and Ph.D. in accounting all at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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