• Funding related to health care facilities and service delivery (including rehabilitation), patient safety and prevention, road widening issues, workforce training, and autism initiatives. Opportunities stemming from the FY2012 omnibus bill and general appropriations process for FY2013; Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25); Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 112-74).
• Issues related to funding and processes related to transportation projects, health care facilities, and autism initiatives. Surface transportation reauthorization legislation.
• Health care reform issues stemming from the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/Pub.L.No.111-148) and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/Pub.L.No. 111-152); Health Information Technology, community health centers, medical home models and accountable care organizations, and hospital payment rates and physician payments ("doc fix").

Duration: October 13, 2010 to June 30, 2014

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

Spending: about $320,000 (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), Administration on Aging, Employment & Training Administration, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)