• Medicare coverage and reimbursement for technology in home care; Competitive bidding; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Alternative Payment models/value-based payments.
• S. 692 Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2019; Medical Device Tax Repeal.

Duration: November 20, 2008 to September 30, 2019

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Health Issues

Spending: about $2,005,000 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate,, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),, Treasury - Dept of, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)