• Site-Neutral Payment (Sec. 603 of the Balanced Budget Act of 2015); To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to increase transparency of certain health-related ownership information (H.R. ____); To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to promote transparency of common ownership interests under Parts C and D of the Medicare Program (H.R. ____); To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for parity in Medicare payments for hospital outpatient department services furnished off-campus (H.R. ____); To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require payment for all hospital-owned physician offices located off-campus be paid in accordance with the applicable payment system for the items and services furnished (H.R. ____); To amend XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for site neutral payments under the Medicare program for certain services furnished in ambulatory settings (H.R. ____); To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to require each outpatient department of a provider to include a unique identification number on claims for services, and to require hospitals with an outpatient department of a provider to submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services an attestation with respect to each outpatient department (H.R. ____); To phase out certain services designated as inpatient-only services under the Medicare program (H.R. ____); Promoting Access to Treatments and Increasing Extremely Needed Transparency (PATIENT) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3561); To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to ensure transparency and oversight of the 340B drug discount program (H.R. 3290); Safety From Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act (H.R. 2584); Doctors of Community (DOC) Act (H.R. 2569); Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (H.R. 1359); Transparent PRICE Act (H.R. 2691); Transparent PRICE Act (H.R. 3281); Expanded Telehealth Access Act (H.R. 3875); Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act of 2023 (H.R. 824); National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2023 (H.R. 2411); Supporting Safety Net Hospitals Act (H.R. 2665); Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023 (S. 1302).

Duration: August 1, 2016 to December 31, 2023

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $480,000 (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, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)