Lobbying Relationship

Client

Global Medical Response (formerly American Medical Response)

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Lobbying firm

Prime Policy Group

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  • Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for ambulance services; Build Back Better Act
  • Veterans healthcare
  • Provider relief fund
  • Workforce

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General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Veterans, Health Issues, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $1,830,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate,, House of Representatives,, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills mentioned

H.R.3729: Comprehensive Operations, Sustainability, and Transport Act of 2017

Sponsor: Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)

H.R.3236: Ambulance Medicare Budget and Operations Act of 2017

Sponsor: Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)

H.R.5149: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the circumstances...

Sponsor: Mike Coffman (R-Colo.)

H.R.745: Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2015

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

S.377: Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2015

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

S.2646: Veterans Choice Improvement Act of 2016

Sponsor: Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.)

S.2633: Improving Veterans Access to Care in the Community Act

Sponsor: Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

S.2921: Veterans First Act

Sponsor: Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)

H.R.8: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

Sponsor: Dave Camp (R-Mich.)

S.1149: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require...

Sponsor: David Vitter (R-La.)

H.R.822: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require reporting of...

Sponsor: Pete Sessions (R-Texas)

H.R.4302: Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014

Sponsor: Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)

S.2110: Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

S.2000: SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

S.1871: SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 2013

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

H.J.RES.59: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

S.424: Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

H.R.1005: Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011

Sponsor: Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.)

H.R.3630: Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012

Sponsor: Dave Camp (R-Mich.)

H.R.2443: Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Sponsor: Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.)

S.1066: Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4994: Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010

Sponsor: John Lewis (D-Ga.)

H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

S.1679: Affordable Health Choices Act

Sponsor: Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

H.R.3962: Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension...

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

H.R.3590: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.1892: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

Sponsor: John B. Larson (D-Conn.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Rich Meade 1994-96: Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Nussle; 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives
Cary Gibson Legislative Director, Cong. Russ Carnahan Sr. Leg. Assistant, Cong. Richard Gephardt Sr. Leg. Assistant, Cong. Shelley Berkley
Mitchell Vakerics Legislative Director, US House Energy & Commerce Committee 2007-08: Staff Assistant, Rep. Timothy Murphy; 2008-09: Legislative Correspondent/Press Assistant, Rep. Timothy Murphy; 2011-15: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Renee Ellmers; 2015: Legislative Director, Rep. Renee Ellmers
Zack Marshall May 2008-2010: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2010-2012: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2012-March 2014: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; March 2014 - January 2019: Legislative Director, Rep. John Yarmuth
Zack Marshal May 2008-2010: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2010-2012: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2012-March 2014: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; March 2014 - January 2019: Legislative Director, Rep. John Yarmuth
Martin Paone 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-2002: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-2007: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-2008: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-2017: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House
Aquila Powell 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation
Emily Katz 2013-15: Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Barbara Boxer; 2010-13: Health Policy Director, Rep. Diana DeGette; 2009-10: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2005-07: Legislative Aide, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2004: Biomedical Ethics Intern (Paid), NIH
Andrew Terp 2012-2016: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Todd Young (IN-09); 2017-2019 Legislative Assistant, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
Jerry Klepner n/a
Mark Disler n/a
Mitch Vakerics n/a
Vickie Walling n/a
R. Scott Pastrick n/a
Marty Paone n/a
Elizabeth Hart Thompson n/a
Kevin Klinkenberg n/a
Elizabeth Thompson n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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