Lobbying Relationship

Client

PARTNERS HEALTHCARE

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Lobbying firm

K&L GATES LLP

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  • H.R. 5926, S. 3040, Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations FY 2017: biomedical research funding.
  • Medicare reimbursement issues related to inpatient and outpatient hospital services.
  • S. 2680, Mental Health Reform Act of 2016; H.R. 2646, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015, entire bills.
  • S. 1137, Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015 (PATENT Act), H.R. 9, the Innovation Act, entire bills.

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General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Spending: about $870,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2014: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills mentioned

H.R.5926: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: Tom Cole (R-Okla.)

S.3040: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)

S.2680: Mental Health Reform Act of 2016

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

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

Sponsor: Tim Murphy (R-Pa.)

H.R.9: Innovation Act

Sponsor: Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)

H.R.2029: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)

H.R.6: 21st Century Cures Act

Sponsor: Fred Upton (R-Mich.)

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

Sponsor: Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas)

H.R.83: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015

Sponsor: Donna M.C. Christensen (D-Virgin Islands)

H.R.4302: Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014

Sponsor: Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)

S.2082: Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014

Sponsor: Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)

H.R.3698: Two-Midnight Rule Delay Act of 2013

Sponsor: Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.)

H.R.1180: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Sponsor: Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.)

S.577: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Sponsor: Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

S.1871: SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 2013

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

S.2157: Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act...

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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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?
Amy Carnevale COS/LD/LA, Rep Nethercutt
James Walsh U.S. Congressman
Barton Gordon U.S. Congressman
Steven Valentine Deputy Asst Atty Gen, DOJ; Gen Counsel/LD, Sen Smith
Donald Dempsey LA, Sen Gramm; LA Sen Kyl; Director of Health Policy, Sen Budget Committee; LD, Sen Burr; Associate Director, OMB
Slade Gorton U.S. Senator
Scott Aliferis LD, Rep Upton
Stephen Cooper n/a
Pamela Garvie n/a
Ryan Severson n/a
Judson Greif 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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