Michael Sparks

Michael brings over 15 years of successful operational and practice management experience to Edelberg & Associates. Michael’s expertise spans multiple specialties including ED, Hospitalist Medicine, EMS, and Radiology. Michael’s previous executive management experience included oversight of the Hospital Medicine division for a large national company. His extensive experience in the development, implementation, and monitoring of quality improvement programs allows Edelberg & Associates to deliver on our dual promise of risk reduction and value enhancement for the healthcare entities we serve, which is critical to the success of today’s Hospital Medicine practice.

Michael brings extensive knowledge of “best practice” in development and implementation of the strategic plans, visions, goals and objectives, standards of performance, policies, and procedures and organizational structure for client physician groups. Compliance is critical to the success of any practice in today’s healthcare environment and an essential building block for success.

His experience in development of corporate compliance programs for Hospital Medicine provides a strong background in both compliance and management of compliance efforts – a unique and essential component of ECA’s success. Michael is a hands-on consultant.

Once programs are up and functioning, Michael develops, implements, and coordinates information systems for practice, managed care plan management, and facilities to ensure full network system integration. Michael has experience from the ground up where he began with individual practice management activities and earned his experience in operations for all aspects hospital medicine practices. Michael understands the importance of developing services for revenue enhancement, marketing of practices and practice operations – and the collaboration with the physicians responsible for success. His successful liaison activities between physician practice and client facilities ensure achievement of strategic goals – Goals which he can design, implement and monitor for any size practice. The importance of development, implementation, and coordination of information systems for practice, managed care plan management, and facilities are critical to ensuring success with network system integration and Michael has an extensive and successful track record that lends itself perfectly to his performance as a consultant to client practices.