• General healthcare, pharmaceutical and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) related issues. S.2041, Promoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act of 2015; neonatal drug issues.
• H.R.3618, Orphan Drug Fairness Act; issues related to the orphan drug tax.

Duration: February 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015

General Issues: Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $130,000 (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 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: Novartis AG (4056 Basel, SUI); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%