• Medical equipment & construction to benefit behavioral health initiative, underinsured demonstration project, and cancer screening & prevention
• Medicare and Medicaid; Physician-Hospital Collaboration Demonstration project, State Children's Health Insurance Program, school-based health centers
• Physician-Hospital Collaboration Demonstration project

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Spending: about $180,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Y Y, Y Y Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health & Human Services - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services