• Health Information Technology (HIT); official Medicare and Medicaid drug compendia for off-label uses; FDA draft guidance for mobile medical applications; federal fraud prevention initiatives.
• Issue related to official Medicare and Medicaid drug compendia for off-label uses and federal fraud prevention initiatives.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to July 31, 2018

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $770,000 (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), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Y Y Department of Health & Human Services, Y Y Department of Health & Human Services Department of Homeland Security