• Healthcare Workforce Shortage; Healthcare Scope of Practice
• Medicare Reimbursement for Radiologist Assistants

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $2,208,868 (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 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Indian Health Service, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Y Y Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.