• Medicare Orthotics and Prosthetics Patient-Centered Care Act (HR 4315, S.3977). Reasonable Useful Lifetime for Orthotics. Legislation and regulation that may impact the practice and/or profession of orthotics and prosthetics; Issues pertaining to Medicare competitive bidding, annual Medicare fee schedule payment updates for orthotics and prosthetics, Medicare regulations, Medicare supplier standards, orthoses provided in Medicare SNFs, Medicare supplier and quality standards, Medicare fraud and abuse and Medicare reform (no specific bills). Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program (OPORP).
• Veteran and military-connected health care legislation and regulation that may impact the practice and/or delivery of orthotics and/or prosthetics. (No specific bills.)
• Medicare Orthotics and Prosthetics Patient-Centered Care Act (HR 4315, S.3977). Legislation and regulation that may impact and/or profession of orthotics and prosthetics. These issues include health care reform, health insurance reform, health insurance coverage issues, managed care, Medicare reform, fraud and abuse and FDA issues (no specific bills). Reasonable Useful Lifetime (RUL). Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program (OPORP).

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

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

Spending: about $4,313,067 (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, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), 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), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Y Y Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Y Y Department of Veteran Affairs, Y Y Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Food and Drug Administration