• Issues concerning regulation of laboratory tests.
• FDA regulation of laboratory-developed tests.

Duration: April 1, 2006 to December 31, 2016

General Issues: Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.)

Spending: about $2,900,000 (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 2006: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Y Y U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services