Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Association of Community Health Centers

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Lobbying firm

Chamber Hill Strategies

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  • Policies related to community health center funding; CMS modification to FQHC cost reporting; mental health legislation, including H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act and S. 2680, the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016; chronic care working group submissions, Medicaid policies, and issues related to the Community HealthCorps program.

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General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $180,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills mentioned

H.R.2646: Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2016

Sponsor: Tim Murphy (R-Pa.)

S.2680: Mental Health Reform Act of 2016

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

H.R.3762: To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 2002 of the concurrent...

Sponsor: Tom Price (R-Ga.)

H.R.2029: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)

H.R.719: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: John Katko (R-N.Y.)

H.R.2: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Sponsor: Michael C. Burgess (R-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?
Jennifer Bell Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Thune (R-SD)
Michaela Sims Legislative Counsel, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) Legislative Director and Counsel, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) Legislative Counsel, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Laura Kemper Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Health Policy Advisor, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) Executive Assistant, Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA)
Jennifer Higgins 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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