• Labor/HHS/Education appropriations legislation; Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program funding; Economic Stimulus legislation; Health IT funding
• Sec. 508 wage index reclassification; Nursing training and visa issues; Rehabilitation hospitals legislation; Section 340B inpatient drug discount legislation; SCHIP legislation; America's Affordable Health Choices Act, H.R. 3200; The Affordable Health Choices Act, S. 1679; America's Healthy Future Act

Duration: January 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009

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

Spending: about $350,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate,, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)