• Worked to educate on patient access issues caused by inadequate reimbursement of IVIG
• Worked to include IVIG Patient Registry in the FY 2009 Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Educate Congress on IVIG and plasma derived therapies and the diseases that rely on these lifesaving therapies

Duration: July 1, 2007 to July 31, 2008

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues

Spending: about $20,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), House of Representatives,