• FY 2018 funding for cancer survivorship services President's Budget for FY 2018 and proposed cuts to NIH/NCI.
• Congress: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), ensuring coverage and access for cancer patients is preserved. NIH: 21st Century Cures Act, requesting timely transfer of funding to the National cancer Institutes. FDA: Reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) as well as new requirements for the FDA as outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act, request to incorporate psychosocial distress screening across the cancer care continuum HHS: CMS-9929-P, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Market Stabilization, provisions related to open/special enrollment, guaranteed issue, actuarial value, and network adequacy.

Duration: March 22, 2013 to January 1, 2017

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Foreign Relations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Tobacco, Insurance, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Science/Technology

Spending: about $880,000 (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 2013: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of the Vice President of the United States, White House Office, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), House of Representatives,