• Issues affecting the dental hygiene profession and the oral health care delivery system, including Medicaid, CHIP, the addition of an oral health benefit to the Medicare program, dental workforce innovations, and the ongoing health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Issues affecting the dental hygiene profession and the oral health care delivery system, including federal support for oral health workforce innovations and mitigating the ongoing health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to July 1, 2022

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

Spending: about $1,580,000 (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: Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), White House Office, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Education - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), U.S. Senate,, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Energy - Dept of, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA),, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Indian Health Service,, Indian Health Service, Navy - Dept of, Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Federal Trade Commission (FTC),, Y Y The White House U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Trade Commission