H.R. 3590, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" --
- Sec. 3025, Hospitals readmissions reduction program
H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" --
- Sec. 1151, Reducing potentially preventable hospital readmissions
Medicare physician payment reform (no specific legislation)
Duration: June 4, 2008
to
May 31, 2010
General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid , Health Issues , Budget/Appropriations , Education , Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Spending: about $171,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
Lobbyists
Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.
Lobbyist
Covered positions?
Camille Bonta Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Senator John Glenn
U.S. Sen. John Glenn, Legislative Correspondent
U.S. Senator John Glenn, Legislative Corresponden
U.S. Senator John Glenn, Legislative Correspondent
Legislative Correspondent, US Senator John Glenn
Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John Glenn
Disclosures Filed
Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.
2nd Quarter, 2010
Ms. Camille Bonta terminated an engagement in which they represented The Society of Thoracic Surgeons on July 20, 2010.
Original Filing: 300303731.xml
1st Quarter, 2010
In Q1, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on April 20, 2010.
Original Filing: 300275841.xml
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 3590, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" --
- Sec. 3025, Hospitals readmissions reduction program
H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" --
- Sec. 1151, Reducing potentially preventable hospital readmissions
Medicare physician payment reform (no specific legislation)
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2009
In Q4, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on Jan. 25, 2010.
Original Filing: 300249701.xml
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 3962, "Affordable Health Care for America Act" - Sec. 2211, "Frontline Health Providers;" Subpart XI, "Health Professional
Needs Areas." Lobbied to allocate available loan scholarships to mediclspecialties with long training periods and which are not filling
exisitng training positions.
H.R. 3962, ""Affordable Health Care for America Act" - Sec. 1907, "Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS." Lobbied for expansion of criteria under this section to include a specialty specific conversion factor demo.
H.R. 3590, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" - Sec. 3021, "Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS. Lobbied for expansion of criteria under this section to include a specialty specific conversion factor demo.
H.R. 3590, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" - Subtitle F, "Stregthening Primary Care and Other Workforce Improvements." Lobbied to create a new section that would establish a loan repaying program for cardiothoracic surgeons.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2009
In Q3, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $19,000. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2009.
Original Filing: 300220772.xml
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"
- Sec. 1051, "Distriubtion of unused residency positions" - support modification to allow reallocation of unsused position to cardiothoracic surgery training.
H.R. 3200 Continued...
- Sec. 1121, "Sustainable growth rate reform" - support as written
S. 1796, "America's Healthy Future Act of 2009"
- Sec. 3021, "Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS" - Support the modifcation of criteria to include a pilot that would include the use of specialty-specific expenditure targets.
- Sec. 3032, "Distribution of Additional Residency Positions" - Support the reallocation of unused training positions to cardiothoracic surgery training.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"
- Sec. 2211, "Frontline Health Providers" -- support modifcation to provide loan forgiveness funding for students who pursue cardiothoracic surgery training.
S. 1678, "Affordable Health Choices Act" -
- Sec. 423, "Healthcare Workforce Loan Forgiveness Repayment Programs" - Support modifcation to provide loan forgiveness funding for students who pursue cardiothoracic surgery training.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2009
In Q2, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on Aug. 3, 2009.
Original Filing: 300196545.xml
Lobbying Issues
Medicare physician payment reform (no specific bill number);
Modify the calculation of Medicare practice expense for cardiothoracic surgeons by allowing the accounting of acutal costs for clinical staff that cardiothoracic surgeons employ and bring bring with them to the hospital (no specific bill number);
Support the reallocation of unused GME residency training positions to cardiothoracic surgery (no specific bill number)
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health System Reform: loan forgiveness/repayment for cardiothoracic surgery residents; health care quality improvement; medical liability reform (no specific bill number)
The Affordable Health Choices Act; Sec. 205 - "Collection and Analysis of Quality Measure Data" (no Senate bill number)
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2009
In Q1, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on April 17, 2009.
Original Filing: 300153783.xml
Lobbying Issues
Health System Reform: ensuring an adequate workforce of cardiothoracic surgeons; health care quality improvement; health care transparency; medical liability reform (no specific bill number)
Physician Payments Sunshine Act (S. 301)
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Medicare physician payment reform (no specific bill number)
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 1, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act"
Title VIII; Subtitle B Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Comparative Effectiveness Research Funding)
Title XXX - Health Information Technology and Quality
Subtitle D - Privacy; Part I - Improved Privacy Provisions and Security Provisions
Sec. 13405 - Restrictions on Certain Disclosures and Sales of Health Information; Accounting of Certain Protected Health Information Disclosures; Access to Certain Information in Electronic Format
Sec. 13405(b)(1)(B) - Guidance
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2008
In Q4, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on Jan. 21, 2009.
Original Filing: 300131445.xml
Lobbying Issues
H.R. 4137 "College Cost Reduction and Access Act." Sec. 430 - "Loan Forgiveness in Service Areas of National Need."
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health system reform; No specific legislation.
Physician workforce. Specifically, policies to address the shortage of cardiothoracic surgeons; No specific legislation.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Medicare physician payment and reform; No specific legislation.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2008
In Q3, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $24,000. The report was filed on Oct. 15, 2008.
Original Filing: 300092571.xml
Lobbying Issues
S. 3101 and H.R. 6331, the "Medicare Improvements for Physicians and Providers Act of 2008," Subtitle B - Provisions Relating to Part B, specifically Sec. 131 which would increase the Medicare physician payment update in 2008 and 2009.
Medicare physician payment reform and Part A and B "gainsharing." No specific legislation.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
S. 1693, the "Wired for Health Care Quality Act," Section 3006, "Quality and Efficiency Reports," and Section 3007, "Research Access to Health Care Data and Reporting on Performance."
2nd Quarter, 2008
In Q2, Ms. Camille Bonta lobbied for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons , earning $8,000. The report was filed on July 18, 2008.
Original Filing: 300071181.xml
Lobbying Issues
S. 3101 and H.R. 6331, the "Medicare Improvement for Physicians and Providers Act of 2008," Subtitle B- Provisions Relating to Part B, specifically Sec. 131 which would increase the Medicare physician payment update in 2008 and 2009.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2008
Ms. Camille Bonta filed a lobbying registration on July 8, 2008 to represent The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, effective June 4, 2008.
Original Filing: 300062160.xml
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Medicare physician payment, health information technology .
Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate
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