• Medicare reimbursement issues for post-acute care services and products; Medicare Part B competitive bidding issues; Extension of Medicare therapy caps exceptions process; Health reform implementation issues impacting long-term care settings; Issues pertaining to coverage and payment for rehabilitation services; Issues pertaining to electronic health records and health information technology
• Facilitating the use of health information technology in improving health care quality and care transitions between acute care settings and long-term post-acute care settings

Duration: April 1, 2010 to September 30, 2013

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $350,000 (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: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)