• Blood and blood product reimbursement, recruitment of blood donors, blood donation awareness, impact of COVID-19 on blood supply, infectious disease testing, FDA guidance on individual risk assessments for donor deferral, access to blood in hospice and pre-hospital settings
• Value of Blood/Reimbursement, laboratory developed tests
• Blood centers disaster preparedness and response activities, impact of COVID-19 on the blood supply

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Roads/Highway, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations, Torts

Spending: about $1,103,316 (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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), White House Office, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Social Security Administration (SSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),