• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing; Pharmacy Issues; Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits; Amendments to the Social Security Act relating to prescription drugs, chemotherapy, and cardiology care; Any legislation proposing changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (HR 3590) or the Health Care & Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HR 4872).

Duration: December 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $90,000 (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), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)