Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Patient Advocate Foundation

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Lobbying firm

Kountoupes | Denham (formerly reporting as Kountoupes Consulting, LLC)

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  • Issues relating to implementation of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PL111-148) including implementation of health insurance reform measures in the comprehensive health reform to provide coverage of the uninsured and annual and lifetime benefit limits; policy issues related to the medicare sustainable growth rate and preserving patients' access to community care and H.R.460, The Patient Access to Treatment Act.

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General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $470,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House Office, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC)

Bills mentioned

H.R.460: Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013

Sponsor: David McKinley (R-W.Va.)

S.806: A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to...

Sponsor: Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)

H.R.2245: Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act of 2011

Sponsor: Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

H.R.3839: Drug Shortage Prevention Act of 2012

Sponsor: John Carney (D-Del.)

S.296: Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

S.3187: Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act

Sponsor: Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

H.R.4209: Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2012

Sponsor: David McKinley (R-W.Va.)

H.R.4872: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Sponsor: John M. Spratt Jr. (D-S.C.)

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

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

H.R.901: Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act

Sponsor: Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.)

S.1624: Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2009

Sponsor: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

H.R.5560: Quality Cancer Care for Life Act of 2010

Sponsor: Dennis Moore (D-Kan.)

H.R.5: Protecting Access to Healthcare Act

Sponsor: Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.)

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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?
Lisa Kountoupes Deputy Asst. to the President & House Liaison; Special Asst. to the President for Leg. Affairs; Asst. Dir.- Leg Affairs at OMB; Special Asst. of Undersecretary, Dept. of Energy Policy Advsior to Chairman, Energy & Commerce Comm. Special Asst. to the President for Legis. Affairs Asst. Dir.,Legislative Affairs at OMB Special Asst. to Undersecretary, Dept. of Energy Policy Adv.toChmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm. Deputy Asst. the President & House Liaison Policy Adv. to Chmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm Asst. Dir., Legislative Affairs at OMB Policy Adv. to Chmn., Energy&Commerce Comm Policy Adv. to Chmn., Energy&Commerce Comm. Policy Adv. to Chmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm. Policy Adv.toChmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm. Policy Adv.to Chmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm. Special Asst. to the President for Leg. Affairs Asst. Dir., Leg. Affairs at OMB Special Asst.to the President for Legis. Affairs Asst. Dir., Legislataive Affairs at OMB
Julie Hershey Carr LA, LD & Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts R-PA LA,LD&Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA LA,LD&Sr.Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA LA, LD & Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA LA,LD & Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA
Lori Denham Chief of Staff, LD, LA, Sr. Policy Adv., Comm. Dir., Staff Asst., Rep. Cal Dooley D-CA; LD, Rep. Darlene Hooley D-OR CoS,LA,LD,Sr. Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Assistant, Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA Legislative Director, Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR CoS,LA,LD,Sr.Policy Advisor, Communications CoS, LA, LD, Sr. Policy Advisor, Communications CoS, LA,LD, Sr. Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Asssistant, Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA Director, Staff Assistant, Rep. Cal Dooley D-CA Legislative Director, Rep. Darlene Hooley D-OR
Melissa Shannon Policy Advisor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; LA, LC to Rep. Nancy Pelosi D-CA; Staff Asst. to Rep. Nita Lowey D-NY Policy Adv., Speaker Nancy Pelosi; LA,LC Rep Pelosi D-CA; Staff Asst.,Rep. Nita LoweyD-NY Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi LA, LC, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA Staff Assistant, Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY Policy Advisor - Speaker Nancy Pelosi LA, LC - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA Staff Assistant - Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY
Shawn Whitman CoS - Senator John Barrasso CoS,LD,LA,LC&Press Asst-Sen. Craig Thomas Staff Assistant - Senator Alan Simpson CoS,LD,LA,LC&Press Asst-Sen.Craig Thomas CoS,LD,LA,LC&Press Asst.-Sen.Craig Thomas CoS,LD,LA,LC&Press Asst.- Sen.Craig Thomas *Shawn is abiding by the one year ban on lobbying the Senate CoS, Senator John Barrasso CoS, LD,LA,LC&Press Asst.,Sen.Craig Thomas Staff Assistant, Senator Alan Simpson *Shawn is abiding by the one year ban of

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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