• Issues related to pharmacy benefit managers, Sustainable Growth Rate, H.R. 1024, Medication Therapy Management Act of 2013; S. 2862, the Regulatory Transparency, Patient Access, and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2014, and H.R. 4709, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2014; and H.R. 4190, a bill to amend the Social Security Act to recognize pharmacies as providers under Medicare Part B.

Duration: February 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014

General Issues: Pharmacy

Spending: about $430,000 (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 2012: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives