Lobbying Relationship

Client

CSL BEHRING LLC (formerly ZLB Behring)

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Lobbying firm

ALSTON & BIRD, LLP

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  • Implementation of the orphan drug exception from pharmaceutical fee.

Duration: to

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $710,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Treasury - Dept of, Y Y

Bills mentioned

S.701: Medicare Patient IVIG Access Act of 2009

Sponsor: John Kerry (D-Mass.)

H.R.3590: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4872: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Sponsor: John M. Spratt Jr. (D-S.C.)

H.R.4813: To provide for insurance reform (including health insurance reform),...

Sponsor: Marion Berry (D-Ark.)

H.R.2914: Medicare IVIG Access Act of 2007

Sponsor: Kevin Brady (R-Texas)

S.2990: Medicare IVIG Access Act of 2008

Sponsor: John Kerry (D-Mass.)

S.3101: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

H.R.6331: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

S.2914: Imported Seafood Safety Enhancement Act of 2008

Sponsor: David Vitter (R-La.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Michael Park Health Policy Counsel, Senate Finance Cmte.
Carolyn Smith Assoc. Dep. COS/Leg. Coun., Joint Comm. on Tax.
Stephanie Kennan Sr. Health Pol. Advisor, Sen. Ron Wyden
Laura Holland Executive Assistant to Rep. Nathan Deal (GA)
Thomas Scully n/a
Regina Sherick n/a
Elinor Hiller n/a
Colin Roskey n/a
Timothy Trysla n/a
Tim Trysla n/a
Tom Scully n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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