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Health Issues HCR

Issues relating to health disparities, health care reform, quality of life and palliative care, federal health care programs, genetic information, cancer, nutrition, and wellness, including the following legislation to be reintroduced from the 112th Congress; the Sun Act, the Family Act, Health Equity and Accountability Act, the Clean Cookstoves Support Act, and the Patient Centered Quality of Care Act. Also, H.R.1339 & S. 641, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act and H.R. 1070, Reducing Barriersto Colorectal Cancer Screening Act and S. 621 and H.R. 1285, the Safe Prescribing Act and H.R. 1366, the Stop Oxy Abuse Act.

Contacted: White House Office; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); State, Dept of (DOS)

Bills named: H.R. 1285 (113th), H.R. 1339 (113th), H.R. 1366 (113th), S. 641 (113th), S. 621 (113th), H.R. 1070 (113th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Issues relating to implementation of changes to Medicare and Medicaid, pursuant to P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and tobacco cessation programs within Medicaid, including: S.868 and H.R.1683, the State Flexibility Act (MOE). Issues relating to inclusion of palliative care as a bundled service within CMS "value-based purchasing", S.2068, S.2288, H.R.1206, the Access to Independent Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2012, general deficit reduction issues impacting Medicare &Medicaid.

Contacted: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); State, Dept of (DOS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); White House Office; SENATE

Bills named: S. 2288 (113th), H.R. 1206 (113th), S. 2068 (113th), S. 868 (113th), H.R. 1683 (113th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Federal budget and appropriations for cancer research and programs, including federal appropriations for NIH, NCI, CDC, FDA; the Prevention & Public Health Fund; the Affordable Care Act provisions; programs for breast and cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, tobacco regulation and cessation, patient navigators, patient quality of life, and international health. S.Con.Res. 8 FY14 Senate Budget Resolution, H.R. 993 Consolidated & Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013. H.J.Res.117, the Continuing AppropriationsResolution Act; and the President's FY14 Budget.

Contacted: Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); State, Dept of (DOS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE

Bills named: S.Con.Res. 8 (113th), H.J.Res. 117 (113th), H.R. 993 (113th)

Tobacco TOB

Issues relating to smoking cessation, tobacco sales to minors, tobacco taxes, product regulation, and smokefree environments, including: (1) implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P.L. 111-31): (2) cessation and prevention programs authorized as part of P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010; (3) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). S. 39, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act,H.R. 792 & S. 772, cigar exemption from FDA regulations; S. 194, Tobacco Tax Equity Act and tobacco tax proposals contained in the President's FY14 Budget. Issues relating to tobacco and trade, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Contacted: Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); State, Dept of (DOS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); SENATE; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: H.R. 792 (113th), S. 194 (113th), S. 772 (113th), S. 39 (113th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues relating to the tax treatment of nonprofits, deductability of charitable donations, including governance of nonprofit organizations. Includes taxpayer deductibility and tobacco tax provisions in the President's FY14 Budget.

Contacted: State, Dept of (DOS); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Food & Drug Administration (FDA)