• Medicare Part B provisions relating to home infusion of IVIG, particularly in CIPD and H.R. 3808. CMS programs relating to reference pricing systems. Issues relating to Source plasma donation and plasma protein products. The Inflation Reduction Act and provisions relating to plasma derived therapies and drug pricing including Part D rebates and HR 6465, The PLASMA Act.
• Education visits to House and Senate offices relating to plasma protein therapies and the rare disease patients that use them, and the need for continued Source plasma donations. Medicare Part B provisions relating to home infusion of IVIG, particularly in CIPD and HR 3808. CMS programs relating to reference pricing systems. Inflation Reduction Act and negotiation provisions for plasma derived therapies.
• Issues related to the continuation or change of the Orphan Drug Tax Credit.

Duration: July 9, 2008 to present

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Pharmacy

Spending: about $7,614,024 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS),, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Treasury - Dept of

Related Foreign Entities: Grifols S.A. (08174 Sant Cugat del Valles, ESP); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 0%; Grifols, S.A. (Barcelona, ESP); contribution to lobbying: $33000; ownership 100%; Octapharma AG (Lachen, SUI); contribution to lobbying: $33000; ownership 100%