4th Quarter - Report — AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION for AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION (2018)

Firm

AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

Client

AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

Income

—

Expenses

$190,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Lobbied on the Emergency Medical Service Providers Protection Act (H.R. 5971).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
TRISTAN NORTH	—

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

Bills named: H.R. 5971 (115th)

Health Issues HCR

Lobbied on the Supporting and Improving Rural EMS Needs Act of 2018 (S. 2830, H.R. 5429) and the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (H.R. 2) to allow the Secretary of HHS to continue to have the ability to determine which additional EMS provider types can apply for the Rural EMS Grant program.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUTH HAZDOVAC	Legislative Assistant, Congressman Devin Nunes
TRISTAN NORTH	—

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

Bills named: H.R. 2 (115th), H.R. 5429 (115th), S. 2830 (115th)

Veterans VET

Lobbied on the Veterans Reimbursement for Emergency Ambulance Services Act (H.R. 1445) and the Senate FY2019 Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUTH HAZDOVAC	Legislative Assistant, Congressman Devin Nunes
TRISTAN NORTH	—

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

Bills named: H.R. 1445 (115th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Lobbied for increases in reimbursement for ambulance service agencies and changes in policies to the Medicare ambulance fee schedule including a system to collect ambulance cost data and to create a pilot program on alternative destinations for ambulance transports. Lobbied on the Non-Emergency Ambulance Transportation Sustainability and Accountability Act of 2018 (H.R. 6269, S. 3619).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
RUTH HAZDOVAC	Legislative Assistant, Congressman Devin Nunes
TRISTAN NORTH	—

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

Bills named: S. 3619 (115th), H.R. 6269 (115th)

Foreign entities

Foreign owners and affiliates the filer disclosed. Amounts are as declared on this filing.

Entity	Country	Principal place of business	Ownership	Contribution declared
INTEREL HOLDINGS, SA/NV	Belgium	Belgium	—	—

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.