• House and Senate Healthcare Reform Packages Additional regulatory/rulemaking issues post passage of the PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Duration: July 20, 2009 to July 23, 2010

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

Spending: about $398,530 (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), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)