• Issues relating to long-term reform of the Medicare Physician payment system. Support for expansion of funding for Graduate Medical Education. Issues relating to physician practice consolidation and access to care. H.R. 2389, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act. H.R. 2474, the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act. Issues relating to prior authorization(s) in the Medicare program and reducing regulatory burden. H.R. 3674, the Providing Relief and Stability for Medicare Patients Act. H.R. 4261, the Amputation Reduction and Compassion (ARC) Act. Issues relating to site-neutral payments in the Medicare system. Issues relating to the CY2024 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment Policies. Issues relating to rural access to health care and health disparities. Support for easing administrative burdens on physicians. Support for the Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act (discussion draft/prior authorization relief). Efforts to prevent 3.37 percent cut to 2024 Medicare conversion factor. Support for H.R. 6683, the "Preserving Seniors Access to Physicians Act." Medical training concerns relating to H.R. 7725, the Embracing Anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curriculum, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act. Health-related provisions in H.R. 2872, the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024. Health-related provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.
• VA National Standards of Practice; in general.
• Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill; in general. Funding for health-related programs; in general. FY2024 appropriations; in general. H.R. 6363, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024; efforts relating to inclusion of provisions to prevent cuts to the Medicare physician fee schedule. Health-related provisions in H.R. 2872, the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024. Health-related provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.
• Monitoring implementation of the No Surprises Act. H.R. 1202/S.704, the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act or the REDI Act. H.R.731/S. 220, the Workforce Mobility Act of 2023. Issues relating to physician practice consolidation/access to care. Medical training concerns relating to H.R. 7725, the Embracing Anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curriculum, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act.
• H.R. 1202/S.704, the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act or the REDI Act. H.R. 2389, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023. Medical training concerns relating to H.R. 7725, the Embracing Anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curriculum, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to April 8, 2019

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Veterans, Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Education, Torts

Spending: about $4,180,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Education - Dept of, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Treasury - Dept of, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), White House Office