• Medicaid IMD Exclusion; Mental Health Parity Regulations; Information Technology Legislation; Medicare Impatient Psychiatric PPS Regulations; Medicare 190-day Lifetime Limit; Special Education Issues/IDEA; Medicare Partial Hospitalization Outpatient PPS; State Children's Health Insurance Program; Residential Treatment; Healthcare Reform; Comprehensive Mental Health Reform; Substance Use Disorder Funding and Services; Telehealth and payment, Regulatory Relief, Vaccine Mandate and Workplace Violence.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $7,749,362 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Education - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Y Y Department of Education; HHS