ABIGAIL STORK for IOWA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
What was lobbied
4 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
Health care reform proposals relating to tax exempt status of hospitals including, Senate Finance policy options paper.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ABIGAIL STORK | — |
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR
S. 560, Employee Free Choice Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 1409, Employee Free Choice Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ABIGAIL STORK | — |
Medicare/Medicaid MMM
H.R. 2919, Medicare Efficiency Incentive Act of 2009: entire bill. S. 1249, Medicare Payment Improvement Act of 2009: entire bill. S. 1262, Medical Efficiency and Delivery Improvement of Care Act of 2009: Section 3003: Value index under the Medicare physician fee schedule. H.R. 3074, Medicare Payment Fairness Act of 2009: entire bill. S. 295, Medicare Quality and Payment Reform Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 2251, Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 2350, Preserving Patient Access to Primary Care Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 1776, Quality FIRST Act of 2009: entire bill. H.R. 2844, Medicare Payment Improvement Act of 2009, entire bill. S. 1031, National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act, provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 2525, Safeguarding our Hospitals' Futures Act of 2009, entire bill. S. 1108, Safeguarding our Hospitals' Futures Act of 2009, entire bill. H.R. 362, Rural Hospital Assistance Act of 2009: entire bill. H.R. 2891, Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2009: entire bill. HELP Committee health reform proposal, The Affordable Health Choices Act: provisions relating to hospitals. House Tri-Committee health reform discussion draft: provisions relating to hospitals. S.318, Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2009: provisions relating to hospitals. H.R. 1, The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act: provisions relating to hospitals including, HIT; comparative effectiveness. H.R. 2201, the Medicare Equity & Accessibility Act: provisions relating to hospitals. S. 1157, The Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act: provisions relating to hospitals. Other Issues: Medicare Geographic Disparity: Feingold-Klobuchar letter and McCollum-Obey letter. Capital IME payments to hospitals: Neal-Tiberi letter and Schumer-Roberts letter. Value-based purchasing as it relates to payments for hospitals. DSH payments to hospitals, including Sullivan, Bingaman, Inhofe letter. CMS proposed FY2010 rule, provisions relating to hospitals. Budget neutrality adjustment to rural floor of wage index: Congressmen Larsen, Pascrell, and LoBiondo Letter. Other issues continued: Graduate medical education as it relates to hospitals. Hospital physician self-referral issue. CMS final 2009 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule: incident to policy. Monitored issues relating to GPO Safe Harbor. Issues relating to Medicare Administrative Contractors. Monitored issues relating to Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors. Monitored HHS Provider Conscience Regulation. Moratorium on Medicare regulation related to hospice budget neutrality adjustment factor. SGR fix--physician payment in Medicare.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ABIGAIL STORK | — |
Budget/Appropriations BUD
HConRes85, Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2009 and 2011 through 2014: provisions relating to hospitals. SConRes13, An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014: provisions relating to hospitals. President's FY 2010 budget proposal: provisions relating to hospitals.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ABIGAIL STORK | — |
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.