• Seeking federal funding for a community telemedicine initiative and monitoring FY12 appropriations bills as they develop
• Health Information Technology funding and policy; Healthcare Reform - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Healthcare Reconciliation & Education Act; HRSA funding issues; Seeking grant funding for a community telemedicine initiative; Urge support for increased Federal Medical Assistance Percentage

Duration: May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2011

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues

Spending: about $160,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)