• HELP Copays Act, HR 830 and S 1375 (protect patients who rely on copay assistance to afford their therapies) PBM regulation Protect Medicaid coverage against funding cuts, coverage losses due to unwinding Support funding for federal health programs Strengthen ACA essential health benefits standards Strengthen disability discrimination regulations.
• HR 830 and S 1375, HELP Copays Act (protect patients who rely on copay assistance) defend Medicaid against funding cuts and coverage losses due to unwinding strengthen definition of essential health benefits (ACA) support patient protections against non-ACA-compliant insurance

Duration: January 13, 2010 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Insurance, Budget/Appropriations, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $157,000 (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 2010: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Treasury - Dept of, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)