• HR6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; S3101, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; S3118, Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (HR 6311); Medicare Hospice Protection Act of 2008 (HR6873, S3484); Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act of 2008 (S3656)

Duration: April 2, 2007 to November 30, 2008

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $260,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)