• Issues relating to the Patent Reform Act
• Issues relating to Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act, Issues relating to Group Purchasing Organizations, Issues relating to Physician Sunshine Act, Issues relating to Comparative Effectiveness, Issues relating to the FDA Globalization Act, Issues relating to SBIR, Issues relating to Gainsharing, Issues relating to Medical Device Tax
• Issues relating to Reimbursement of Medical Devices
• Issues related to the Medical Device Tax

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

May Have Ended?

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations, Small Business

Spending: about $5,910,000 (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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)