• Issues pertaining to durable medical equipment including: bidding, power wheelchairs, oxygen, diabetic supplies, negative pressure wound therapy, Medicare audits, sequestration, and fraud abuse; Medicare DMEPOS Market Pricing Program Act, all provisions; Reimbursement cuts in non-competitive bidding areas, all provisions; H.R.6 - 21st Century Cures Act, competitive bidding issues; S.2425 - Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, all provisions; H.R.4185/S.2312 - DME Rural Relief, all provisions; S.2736/H.R.5210 - Patient Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act of 2016, all provisions; H.R.6 21st Century Cures Act.

Duration: April 15, 2016 to July 1, 2017

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $110,000 (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 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives