4th Quarter - Report — MERIDIAN HEALTH for MERIDIAN HEALTH (2015)

Firm

MERIDIAN HEALTH

Client

MERIDIAN HEALTH

Income

—

Expenses

$30,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

6 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Insurance INS

Medicaid managed care Population health/Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Medicare managed care

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs MED

National Institutes of Health appropriations Pandemic and hazards funding 340B designation and funding Behavioral health funding 21st Century Cures

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Medicaid expansion and reform Medicaid and Medicare disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) eligibility and funding Wage index; national budget neutrality Children's hospitals' graduate medical education (CHGME) Trauma Indirect and direct medical education (GME) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) reformation and funding Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Two-midnight rule Readmission penalties Behavioral health Health Information Technology (HIT)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President of Government Relations

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare reform Medicaid expansion and reform Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share (DSH) funding Wage index Medicare bad debt Medicare outpatient prospective payment system Integrated health care delivery Medical education funding for teaching hospitals Health information technology (HIT) Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Two-midnight rule Readmission penalties Behavioral health Hospital Outpatient Department Funding (HOPD)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Trauma funding reauthorization and appropriation Children's hospitals graduate medical education (CHGME) National Institutes of Health funding Labor, HHS appropriations Evaluation and Management funding (Medicare) Sequestration Disproportionate Share funding (Medicare and Medicaid)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Education EDU

Children's hospital graduate medical education (CHGME) Resident training programs Indirect and direct medical education adjustments for teaching hospitals

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUSS MOLLOY	Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.