• Consulting and advocacy services related to addressing the pending ownership requirements as established by the Executive Branch in the revised Stark regulations. Outreach to appropriate Executive Branch offices, and relevant congressional offices to support this technical change/legislative change.

Duration: April 1, 2009 to July 31, 2009

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $70,000 (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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)