4th Quarter - Report — QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED for QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED (2011)

Firm

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Client

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Income

—

Expenses

$190,000

Expense method

C: businesses, Internal Revenue Code section 162(e)

What was lobbied

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

Health Issues HCR

Oversight of laboratory services and genetic information and testing, to include the Modernizing Laboratory Test Standards for Patients Act (H.R. 3207); the Gestational Diabetes Act (H.R. 2194, S. 1221).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
FAITH A CRISTOL	—

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: H.R. 3207 (112th), H.R. 2194 (112th), S. 1221 (112th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare reimbursement related to the 2011 Physician Fee Schedule, provisions in the Affordable Care Act and federal budget negotiations, to include the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 (H.R. 3765); self-referral abuses relating to anatomic pathology (no specific bills); reimbursement and oversight of clinical laboratory services (no specific bills).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
FAITH A CRISTOL	—
ARIEL ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ	—

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 3765 (112th)

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.