• HIT funding; Community health center and school health funding; Implementation of Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/P.L. 111-148) and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/P.L. 111-152); FY2014 Budget; Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (H.J. Res. 59).
• Technology research; Community Health Centers and School Health; Telemedicine; Implementation of Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/P.L. 111-148) and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/P.L. 111-152); The Protect Medical Innovation Act (H.R. 523); FY2014 Budget, accountable care organizations; implementation of S.3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act; Safeguarding America's Pharmaceuticls Act (H.R. 1919); Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (H.J. Res. 59); SGR Reform.
• Medical device tax; IC-DISC; Implementation of Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/Pub.L.No.111-148); Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/Pub.L.No. 111-152). H.R. 523 Protect Medical Innovation of 2013, FY2014 Budget, implementation of S.3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act.
• Health Information Technology Issues; Telemedicine and Connected Care; Rural telemedicine; Implementation of Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/Pub.L.No.111-148) and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/Pub.L.No. 111-152), FY2014 Budget.
• Medical device tax; Implementation of Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590/Pub.L.No.111-148) and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872/Pub.L.No. 111-152). Protect Medical Innovation of 2013 (H.R. 523), FY2014 Budget, SGR Reform.

Duration: July 1, 2007 to January 1, 2014

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Telecommunications, Medicare/Medicaid, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Defense

Spending: about $2,506,260 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Natl Guard, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Senate,, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Defense - Dept of (DOD)