• Advocated for the importance of healthcare coverage for our patients and for programs that allow AHCs to maintain their ability (through GME, PBMs, IME, DSH, site-neutral, and 340B) to be safety net healthcare providers. Advocated for legislation to improve maternal health and health equity. Advocated for the extension of telehealth waivers. Advocate for timely payment for hospitals and physicians during the cyber attack on Change Healthcare. Advocated for investment in healthcare workforce and healthcare worker pipeline.
• Advocated for programmatic increases for NIH, NSF, and other health programs and research agencies. Advocated for updated hospital financing. Advocated for Congressionally Directed Funding.
• Advocated for additional GME slots and nurse residency programs. Advocated for relief from increasing labor costs.
• Advocated for increased NIH, NSF, ICRC, and CDC funding. Advocated for funding for pandemic and infectious disease research (RDHRS, NETEC and PREPARE). Advocated against March-In Rights legislation.
• Advocated for student aid funding. Advocated against harmful pay-fors in the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to July 17, 2015

General Issues: Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations, Medicare/Medicaid, Science/Technology, Education, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Immigration, Veterans, Agriculture, Environmental/Superfund, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Defense, Foreign Relations, Energy/Nuclear, Economics/Economic Development

Spending: about $5,130,000 (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, White House Office, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), State - Dept of (DOS)