• Regulatory issues relating to the Food & Drug Administration and Medicare; federal procurement advocacy; consumer privacy issues; health information privacy issues

Duration: January 1, 2008 to July 1, 2013

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Pharmacy

Spending: about $1,570,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)