American Health Care Advocacy Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263303276
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Westmont, IL, USA
Phone
6307899000
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

  • STEVE ANDES (DIRECTOR)
  • REBECCA BUSCH (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We empower vulnerable individuals to advocate for themselves and provide necessary support to help these individuals make sound health care and life decisions. We help people manage and resolve their financial and clinical concerns through information aggregation and discovery, identification, mitigation, resolution and prevention of problems, as well as continued support. We provide market research and understanding of issues that impact waste, fraud, and abuse along with access, meaningful use, healthcare delivery systems, electronic records, and reimbursement issues.

What it reported doing in 2024

A.patient advocacy support unit (asu) i.provided assistance to 6 individuals in organizing their information into a healthcare portfolio. Issues including medical errors, financial errors, and access issues to appropriate levels of service. B. Victim support unit (vsu) i.facilitated 11 individuals with billing errors. Education follow up provided on public assistance; understand healthcare billing; protection of identity. C.healthcare management i.facilitated access to 2 veterans with access and resource issues; 2 children with iep support issues. D.wellness initiatives unit (wiu) i.provided divorce advocacy to 3 families. Provided 2 families with food and clothing who has limited resources. Provided household items to 5 veteran status individuals. Facilitated public assistance for future needs. Donated tutorial support to one individual via an associate program.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.