• Reimbursement rates for home infusion therapies
• Support for biosimilars legislation
• Community outreach programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment
• Support for community health centers
• Medicare reimbursement rates for hospice care
• Health care reform
• Reimportation of prescription drugs

Duration: December 1, 2008 to August 24, 2009

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $85,000 (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, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office