Lobbying Relationship

Client

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA)

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Lobbying firm

Bluestone Strategies, LLC

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  • Issues related to prescription drug coverage and pharmacy benefits. HR 5378, The Lower Costs More Transparency Act S. 127, The PBM Transparency Act - Issues related to the FTC study of Pharmacy Benefit Managers. S. 1339, The Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act - Issues related to the banning of spread pricing and rebate pass throughs S. 1967, The Patients Before Middlemen Act - Issues related to delinking and limiting PBMS ability to manage pharmacy benefits in Medicare.
  • Issues related to prescription drug coverage, supply chain, and pharmacy benefits. S. 1967, The Patients Before Middlemen Act - Issues related to delinking and limiting PBMS ability to manage pharmacy benefits in Medicare.
  • Pharmacy contracting issues related to drug pricing and pharmacy networks. HR 5378, The Lower Costs More Transparency Act S. 127, The PBM Transparency Act - Issues related to the FTC study of Pharmacy Benefit Managers. S. 1339, The Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act - Issues related to the banning of spread pricing and rebate pass throughs S. 1967, The Patients Before Middlemen Act - Issues related to delinking and limiting PBMS ability to manage pharmacy benefits in Medicare.

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General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Pharmacy

Spending: about $2,830,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2011: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills mentioned

S.637: Creating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked (C-THRU) Act of 2017

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

H.R.1939: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017

Sponsor: Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)

H.R.244: MAC Transparency Act

Sponsor: Doug Collins (R-Ga.)

H.R.793: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Sponsor: Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)

H.R.804: Expanding the Availability of Medicare Data Act

Sponsor: Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.)

S.1413: Higher Education Tax Benefit Compliance Improvement Act

Sponsor: Daniel Coats (R-Ind.)

S.1913: Stopping Medication Abuse and Protecting Seniors Act of 2015

Sponsor: Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)

H.R.6: 21st Century Cures Act

Sponsor: Fred Upton (R-Mich.)

H.R.1946: Responsible Student Loan Solutions Act

Sponsor: John F. Tierney (D-Mass.)

H.R.1971: To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide certain TRICARE...

Sponsor: John Kline (R-Minn.)

S.1058: Creating a Reliable Environment for Veterans' Dependents Act

Sponsor: Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

H.R.1188: Preserving Our Hometown Independent Pharmacies Act of 2013

Sponsor: Tom Marino (R-Pa.)

H.R.1367: FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act

Sponsor: Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.)

H.R.1946: Preserving Our Hometown Independent Pharmacies Act of 2011

Sponsor: Tom Marino (R-Pa.)

H.R.1971: Pharmacy Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2011

Sponsor: Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)

S.1058: Pharmacy Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2011

Sponsor: Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)

H.R.5971: Federal Election Integrity Act of 2012

Sponsor: Joe Walsh (R-Ill.)

S.637: CURE High Drug Prices Act

Sponsor: Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

H.R.1939: Health Coverage Tax Credit Reauthorization Act of 2019

Sponsor: Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio)

H.R.3684: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

S.CON.RES.14: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the...

Sponsor: Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)

H.R.5260: Reduced Costs and Continued Cures Act

Sponsor: Scott Peters (D-Calif.)

S.127: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2023

Sponsor: Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)

S.1339: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act

Sponsor: Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)

H.R.5378: Lower Costs, More Transparency Act

Sponsor: Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)

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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?
Behrends Foster Chief of Staff, Representative Dave Camp Chief of Staff, Represetative Dave Camp Chief of Staff, Represntative George (Buddy) Darden
Chris Long Legislative Assistant, Representative George (Buddy) Darden Legislative Assistant, Rep. George (Buddy) Darden Legislative Assistant, George (Buddy) Darden
Chris Huckleberry Chief of Staff, Representative Kurt Schrader
Chris Huckleberry [effective 1/9/24] Chief of Staff, Representative Kurt Schrader

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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