• Implementation of H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Implementation of HR 4872, Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, provisions dealing with Medicare reimbursement for medical imaging procedures. Medicare coverage of CT colonscopy.Medicare payments for medical imaging procedures
• reauthorization of Mamography Quality Standards Act (MQSA)

Duration: November 1, 2007 to May 15, 2011

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Torts

Spending: about $560,000 (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,, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Y Y Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Department of Health and Human Services