• CMS-5517-FC - Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Criteria for Physician-Focused Payment Models. Virtual Groups and Advanced APMs. Thanking CMS for flexibility in reporting for 2017. CMS-5519-P - Medicare Program; Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs); Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model; and Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR). Modifications to CJR, Non-Hospital Providers, New Voluntary Bundled Payment Program and Risk Stratification. HR 2029 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016. Section 502 - Medicare Payment Incentive for the Transition from Traditional X-Ray Imaging to Digital Radiography and Other Medicare Imaging Payment Provision. Opposition to cuts to Medicare Reimbursement for analog and computed radiography X-Ray services.

Duration: June 23, 2014 to December 31, 2016

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Insurance, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Health Issues, Small Business, Budget/Appropriations, Retirement, Unemployment

Spending: about $81,905 (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), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)