Our Founder
Heart and Vascular Specialists was founded by Tarek Ahdab, who has been practicing Southwestern and western Suburbs of the Chicago Metro Area for the past 15 years. It's privately owned by multiple cardiologists. The choice to stay independent of a large health system stems from recognizing the importance of complete autonomy of the provider from unwise financial bias in the employment model, to be a solid, fierce advocate for cardiac patients. The new health reform that started with Obama Care [affordable care act] was designed to provide affordable care for people with pre-existing chronic condition and improve outcomes of health care; however, that reform resulted in skyrocketing out-of-pocket premiums, the return of "subsidy clif" and declining marketplace enrollment following the expiration of enhance federal tax credits. The healthcare landscape faces severe stractural and financial strange. For example: some individuals have seen monthly bills skyrocket from under $100 to $700 a month. Under current rules, earning $1 over threshold [400% of the feredal poverty level] completely eliminates a person's eligibility for federal subsidy rather than gradually facing out. There is a projection that upto 4.8million people could become completely unisured as the cancel plans due to non payment. There is also a narrowing of provider networks due to interference of marketplace insurance companies factor. Patients frequently struggle to find local doctors, specialist or hospitals that accept their marketplace insurance. Due to inflation and increased cost of brand prescription drug, there is a significant increase of premium rates by an average of 20%. Due to new bureaucratic rules and policy shift made it hard for patients to prove employment eligibility and they stay out of safety-net covered. Additionally, several states still to refuse to adopt the ACA's medecaid expansion, hence, millions of low-income adults remain trapped in a "coverage gap". Earning too much to clarify to traaditional medecaid, but too little to qualify for ACA marketplace subsidies. This ineffective structure along with lack of comprehensive global solution to this conflicts healthcare system resulted in worsening of primary prevention, replacing doctors with mid-level providers, and increase in emergency room visits [could have been avoided], and most importantly dissolution of long-term doctor-patient relatiobnship. Unfortunately, around 70 % of rural areas now seriously lack basic cardiology standard care.This will call for the need of a new reform of the healthcare. We are offering a cash-based or membership-based private practice, and by passing some insurance companies to help deliver needed affordable care. We are also implementing IT to reviews paper works so that we can allocate administrative time to patient time.
