Lobbying Relationship

Client

Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative

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Lobbying firm

BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC

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  • Patient Matching and unique patient identifier reform; Increase and support HIE funding streams including Medicaid programs such as HITECH and SUPPORT Acts; Outreach to CDC regarding American Rescue Plan funding for data infrastructure; Seeking GAO report to study how HIEs have accessed and used federal HITECH Act funds
  • Reform of privacy regulations such as 42 CFR Part 2 and other health data exchange regulations
  • Inclusion of HIEs in future infrastructure legislation

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General Issues: Health Issues, Veterans, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Budget/Appropriations, Insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, Pharmacy

Spending: about $300,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)

Bills mentioned

H.R.4242: VA Care in the Community Act

Sponsor: Phil Roe (R-Tenn.)

S.2193: Caring for our Veterans Act of 2017

Sponsor: Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)

H.R.6082: Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act

Sponsor: Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)

H.R.6: SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

H.R.269: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019

Sponsor: Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.)

H.R.6379: Workforce Emergency Response Act of 2020

Sponsor: Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Michael Strazzella n/a
Timothy Costa n/a
Elizabeth Westbrook n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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