Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health

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Lobbying firm

CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.

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  • Appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services for Fiscal Year 2016. Appropriations for the State Office of Rural Health grant program. Funding for the technical assistance for MACRA implementation provided for in H.R. 2.
  • Regulations stemming from enactment of H.R. 3590, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Regulations stemming from enactment of H.R. 4872, The Reconciliation Act of 2010. Progress on the negotiated rulemaking committee recommendations for changes in methodology for designating areas as underserved. Rural issues included in S. 1680, the Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2011. Rural issues included in H.R. 3859, The Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2012. Issues involving the development of alternative payment methodologies for rural hospitals, CAHs and other providers. Reauthorization of the State Office of Rural Health grant program. Legislation dealing with expansion of telehealth services. Legislation/regulations dealing with network adequacy under the ACA. Possible limits on CAH program. Development of alternative Payment models. Definition of essential community provider. Designation methodology for shortage areas. Location requirements for Critical Access Hospitals.

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General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $350,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)

Bills mentioned

H.R.2: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Sponsor: Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas)

H.R.3590: Halt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act

Sponsor: Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)

H.R.4872: Save for Success Act

Sponsor: Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.)

S.1680: National Multimodal Freight Policy and Investment Act

Sponsor: Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)

H.R.3859: HSA Technical Corrections Act

Sponsor: Scott Perry (R-Pa.)

H.R.3590: Sportsmen's Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act

Sponsor: Robert E. Latta (R-Ohio)

H.R.4872: Ending Special Mail Privileges for Congress Act of 2014

Sponsor: Rob Woodall (R-Ga.)

H.R.3859: Oil and Gas Leasing Inflation Adjustment Act

Sponsor: Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.)

H.J.RES.117: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

H.R.3590: Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act

Sponsor: Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4872: To suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized...

Sponsor: John Campbell (R-Calif.)

S.1680: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2011

Sponsor: Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)

H.R.3859: Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2012

Sponsor: Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)

H.R.3070: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.)

S.1599: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

H.R.2017: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

Sponsor: Robert B. Aderholt (R-Ala.)

H.R.2608: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

Sponsor: Sam Graves (R-Mo.)

H.R.2055: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

Sponsor: John Culberson (R-Texas)

H.R.3671: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

H.R.1: Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

H.J.RES.44: Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

H.J.RES.48: Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

H.R.3082: Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011

Sponsor: Chet Edwards (D-Texas)

H.R.3590: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4872: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Sponsor: John M. Spratt Jr. (D-S.C.)

H.R.3293: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: David R. Obey (D-Wis.)

H.R.3288: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010

Sponsor: John W. Olver (D-Mass.)

H.R.1105: Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009

Sponsor: David R. Obey (D-Wis.)

S.3230: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

H.R.2638: Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing...

Sponsor: David E. Price (D-N.C.)

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Lobbyists

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David Connolly Prof. Staff Mbr, Cmte Education and Workforce
Bill Finerfrock n/a
William A. Finerfrock n/a
Matt Reiter n/a
Nathan Baugh n/a
William Finerfrock n/a

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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.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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