• Monitor and advocate against healthcare hospital funding cuts. Monitor budget control act and deficit reduction committee work. Advocate for a change in the Medicare repayment classification of long-term care hospitals. H.R. 5 - Protecting Access to Healthcare Act, monitor and advocate for medical malpractice reform. Advocate to delay the proposed CMS "Two Night" Regulation.
• Monitor and advocate for health care funding and graduate medical education funding, and monitor health care policy and the work of the Deficit Reduction Committee. H.R. 1180.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to October 15, 2013

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $1,160,000 (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,, U.S. Senate, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD),, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Executive Office of the President (EOP),, Y Y Department of Health and Human Services; Executive Office of the President; House of Representatives; Senate; Department of Housing and Urban Development