3rd Quarter - Report — AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES (2015)

Firm

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES

Client

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES

Income

—

Expenses

$30,000

Expense method

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

What was lobbied

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

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on auditors' use of the work of specialists; recent domestic and international efforts to regulate insurers' capital and solvency in order to promote financial stability; Federal Reserve Board on margin over current estimate for international capital standards; SEC on implementation issues with FASB short duration contract disclosures; and higher loss absorbency for globally systemically important insurers

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
WALTER JAMES MACGINNITIE New	—
LAUREN SARPER	—

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Government Accountability Office (GAO); Federal Reserve System; Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Retirement RET

Multiemployer Plan Benefit Suspensions under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA); Multiemployer Plan Partitions and Facilitate Mergers under MPRA; Social Security sustainability; Social Security disability insurance; timing for release of mortality tables; DOL on defining fiduciaries and conflict of interest; and plan design and PBGC related fees

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
MATTHEW ROSS MULLING	—
NIKHAIL NIGAM New	—
WILLIAM RAPP	—

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Federal Reserve System; SENATE; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Government Accountability Office (GAO); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Health Issues HCR

Small group expansion under ACA; long term care issues; premium rate filings under the ACA; drivers of health insurance premium increases; health care cost drivers - transparency issues, disease management, prescription drugs, comparative effectiveness, and network adequacy; and ACA excise tax on high-cost employer plans.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
HEATHER JERBI	—
DAVID LINN	—
CORI UCCELLO	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Treasury, Dept of; Government Accountability Office (GAO); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Federal Reserve System; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare sustainability, Medicare benefit coverage and beneficiary characteristics; Medicare Advantage plan characteristics; Medicaid managed care; Medicaid and CHIP quality strategies.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
HEATHER JERBI	—
NIKHAIL NIGAM New	—
CORI UCCELLO	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Federal Reserve System; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Government Accountability Office (GAO); Labor, Dept of (DOL); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Insurance INS

GAO forum on climate changes; Federal Insurance Office on Terrorism Risk Insurance premium pricing data; Federal Insurance Office regarding price optimization, data analytics, and emerging trends in personal auto and homeowners pricing and underwriting; GAO on FEMA compensation of write your own companies under National Flood Insurance Program; and FIO on proposed methods to monitor affordability of auto insurance

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
LAUREN PACHMAN	—

Contacted: Labor, Dept of (DOL); Government Accountability Office (GAO); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Federal Reserve System; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of; Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

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.