• Oppose proposals to require beneficiary coinsurance for Medicare clinical laboratory testing; Medicare Part B reimbursement policies relating to clinical diagnostic testing; generally support Section 216 of Protecting Access to Medicare Act (H.R. 4302) relating to adjustments to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule; oppose reductions to Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.
• Affordable Care Act and its impact on clinical laboratories and laboratory personnel; legislation concerning regulation of laboratory-developed diagnostic tests.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2014

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Spending: about $240,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)