• Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and regulations relative to partial hospitalization programs in H.R.3590 (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and H.R.3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act); and S.1522/H.R.4373 (Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009).

Duration: May 4, 2009 to September 30, 2010

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $130,000 (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