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“ASK Management &
Consultant is an expert in medical billing and compliance,”
explain Sparks and Kyser on the company’s website. “We have
… started new facilities, helped existing practices run more
efficiently and produced consistent and accurate billing –
the medical billing experts at ASK can help you identify and
process claims and collect money you’re leaving on the
table.”
ASK began its quest to
bring medical billing services to the health profession
about three years ago, says Sparks, because she had grown
weary of providing such services, over the course of her
career in the field, just for other billing service firms
and watching them grow into “six-figure businesses.”
So Sparks connected with
Kyser and ASK M & C was formed.
Sparks, a Toledo native,
has 26 years of experience in medical billing, coding and
practice management, working in a half dozen different
health specialties, such as family medicine, pediatrics,
physical and occupational therapy, DME, skilled nursing,
behavioral and mental health facilities.. Seventeen of those
years have been spent in nursing homes dealing with such
matters as payrolls and billing. She has started several
mental health and substance abuse treatment programs and is
certified by the Ohio and Michigan departments of insurance
for life and financial planning
Sparks is also a certified medical coder, and has advanced
training in billing and administration services. She also
obtained her QMHS certification, and is certified by the
Ohio and Michigan Departments of Insurance for both life
insurance and financial planning.
Kyser has been in health
care finance for 16 years focusing on hospital finance in a
half dozen specialties.
Her specialties include podiatry, orthopedics, DME, home
health care and hospice, as well as hospital and outpatient
facilities and she has worked with ProMedica, Mercy Health
and UTMC facilities.
She is a certified lean leader and financial counselor and
is also certified by the Ohio and Michigan departments of
insurance for life and financial planning.
At Mercy Health Partners, she specialized in
evaluating efficiency and quality improvement measures
across the company. Her insight and leadership played a role
in saving the network millions of dollar annually.
Kyser has also served in a variety of roles in billing and
collections departments, including claims denial processing,
billing and authorization, financial counseling to patients,
and was also consulted for business acquisition evaluation.
As noted above, Sparks was tired of working only to help
other health financial service business realize their
success before she started ASK with Kyser. Now that success
is coming their way. In 2018, ASK quadrupled its revenues
over the previous year and reached the quarter-million
dollar mark, says Kyser. Their goal for 2019 is to hit the
half-million dollar revenue line.
But their success is not limited to their own company.
“All of the companies we worked with have increased their
revenues by 200 percent,” says Kyser.
Sparks and Kyser are not content to merely grow their
medical billing practice in the future. In the coming months
they are planning to venture into the lawn care and child
care businesses as a way to help provide both employment and
low-cost services for those in the community who need such
assistance, particularly ex-offenders and those who are
recovering from substance abuse issues.
It’s an ambitious plan, to be sure. These will be
time-consuming projects for two entrepreneurs who have
already given so much of their time and energy to achieve
their current success. But given that success, it would be
unwise to bet against them.
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