Year-End Report — VIZIENT, INC. for VIZIENT INC (2007)

Firm

VIZIENT, INC.

Client

VIZIENT INC

Income

—

Expenses

$100,000

What was lobbied

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

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

FY2008 IPPS - Behavioral offset payment reductions, hospital acquired conditions and present on admission indicators. Hospital value-based purchasing proposal-general outreach and education Medicaid regulations CMS-2258-FC and CMS- 2279-P: Supported legislation (HR 3533) to impose moratorium on implementation

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	N/A
CIDETTE PERRIN	N/A
STEVEN RIXEN	N/A

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Bills named: H.R. 3533 (110th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Form 990 redesign - worked to minimize filing burden for tax-exempt hospitals Not-for-Profit Hospital Community Benefit Standard - Outreach efforts related to Senate Finance Committee Minority Staff, "Not-for-Profit Hospitals Community Benefit discussion paper, other outreach efforts related to tax-exempt hospital community benefit. State Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization - Supported increasing tax on tobacco products to fund SCHIP reuathorization

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	N/A
CIDETTE PERRIN	N/A
STEVEN RIXEN	N/A

Contacted: Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Health Issues HCR

State Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization- (S.2049, 2499, H.R.3162, H.R. 3555, H.R. 976, H.R. 3963)- General support for reauthorization and expansion to wider populations and provisions related to legal immigrant children. Hospital staffing - (H. R. 1644) - Opposed narrowing the definition of "supervisor" with respect to charge nurses.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	N/A
CIDETTE PERRIN	N/A
STEVEN RIXEN	N/A

Contacted: SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: S. 2049 (110th), H.R. 3555 (110th), H.R. 976 (110th), H.R. 3162 (110th), H.R. 1644 (110th), H.R. 3963 (110th)

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.