• Monitoring the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, especially with respect to provisions related to financial incentives to promote healthy behaviors and market based health care reform. Worked to organize policymaker and thought leader roundtables on healthcare reform implementation for Coalition members.

Duration: July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $30,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)

Affiliated organizations: Dutko Worldwide, LLC; Safeway, Inc.