• Cord blood education and tax incentive issues

Duration: November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2014

General Issues: Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $1,760,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Y Y Executive Office of the President The White House U.S. Department of Health and Human Services