• CMS reimbursement of orthotics and general medicaire issues and legislation affecting durable medical equipment (DME) reimbursement and regulation. Implementation of PPACA and monitoring of HR 3790, a bill to repeal the medicaire competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment.
• IMPLEMENTATION OF PPACA

Duration: November 1, 2007 to June 30, 2010

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues

Spending: about $550,000 (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, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Y Y