• CMS Physician Fee Schedule Rule, Reductions in fee schedules for PTAs, PT Exemptions, and Medicare reimbursement pertaining to PTs/OTs supervision of PTAs/OTA, HR 4878/S.2459 - THE EMPOWER Act.

Duration: October 1, 2019 to present

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $490,000 (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 2019: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)