Michael Biggs is a Partner at ECG Management Consultants and the Performance Transformation Practice Leader. Mr. Biggs is based in Atlanta and has 30 years of experience in healthcare operations and finance. Prior to joining ECG, Mr. Biggs was the founder and practice leader for Zitra Healthcare Partners. He focuses on assisting healthcare organizations in improving their overall margins and developing transformational market and positioning strategies.Mr. Biggs’ area of expertise includes hospital operational and profitability improvement; health enterprise strategy; supply chain performance improvement; process innovation; organizational redesign including corporate, executive and board governance; managed care contracting strategies including risk feasibility; health system integration (pre and post merger); medical staff development; physician acquisitions and divestitures; physician alignment strategies; capital budgeting and planning; IT implementation and design; foreign and domestic health policy; and strategic growth and feasibility assessments.Specifically, Mr. Biggs has extensive experience in implementing enterprise wide margin improvement programs for national and regional health systems. He has spent much of his career putting solutions into practice in the areas of operations and performance improvement, revenue cycle, supply chain, clinical documentation and productivity. Mr. Biggs has also served as a business advisor and provided strategic planning and growth advice to a wide array of integrated delivery systems, physician management companies, private equity groups and national health insurers.