• Work to support projects with the Centers for Disease Control to promote the use of telemedicine to serve people with glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy in rural and underserved areas. Work to support the inclusion of telemedicine for certain eye health related diseases in the Medicare program.
• Work to support the inclusion of telemedicine for certain eye health related diseases in the Medicare program.

Duration: January 15, 2018 to April 1, 2019

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $250,000 (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 2018: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)