• Kidney Care reimbursement issues; ESRD PPS; Medicare Secondary Payer; ESRD quality programs; HR 5027 Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 2023; ESRD PPS proposed rulemaking CY 2025; Medicare Advantage Rate Announcement; Medicare Advantage FY25 proposed rule
• H.R. 6860, "Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act"

Duration: January 6, 2014 to present

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $1,218,000 (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 2014: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)