• Sec. VII of the proposed rule for the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program for Calendar Year 2019 (RIN 0938-AT28).

Duration: July 16, 2018 to January 15, 2019

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $110,000 (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, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)