• Monitor federal issues and legislation associated with health care policy. Monitored the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). H..R. 1076, To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for savings to the Federal Government by permitting pass-through funding for State authorized public entity health benefits pools.S. 1164, Church Health Plan Act of 2013. H.R. 2810, Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013. H.R. 4302, Protecting Access to Medicare Act. S. 1871, SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 2013.

Duration: May 26, 2011 to July 11, 2014

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $660,000 (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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Treasury - Dept of