Lobbying Relationship

Client

BOUNDARY MEDICAL

Provider of web-based medical outcome mesasurement systems. More records

Lobbying firm

POLICY DIRECTIONS INC.

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  • HR 2824 Programs for comparative effectiveness research in private practice and hospital settings.
  • HR 2502 and S. 1213 to provide for conduct of comparative effectiveness research; HR 2813 - support of establishment of knee and hip replacement registry.

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Spending: about $20,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Bills mentioned

H.R.2824: Doctor-Patient Relationship and Research Protection Act

Sponsor: Donna M.C. Christensen (D-Virgin Islands)

H.R.2502: Comparative Effectiveness Research Act of 2009

Sponsor: Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.)

S.1213: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

H.R.2813: National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009

Sponsor: Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.)

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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?
STEPHEN MICHAEL Director, Legislative & Public Affairs (USDA-REA)
" " Assistant to Director, Legislative & Public Inf. (USDA-FmHA) Congressman Bill Schuette, Leg. Director Assisant to Director, Legislative & Public Inf. (USDA-FmHA)
NICOLE CHURCHILL Intern - Robert Matsui
FRANKIE L. TRULL n/a
STEVE MICHAEL 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.

Termination
Q2 Report
Registration
Q1 Report
Registration

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

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