• Implementation and/or delay in implementation of ICD-10 medical coding system issues affecting medical coding isues affecting health information technology regulations establishing standards for meaningful use of electronic health recordsEfforts to address and eliminate fraud and abuse and legislative proposals to fix Medicare payment system.
• HIPAA Administrative Simplification issues coming before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Efforts to address and eliminate fraud and abuse.
• Appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services for FY 2013

Duration: April 10, 2007 to December 31, 2012

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $600,000 (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: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA),, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Veterans Employment & Training Service, Y Y Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services