3rd Quarter - Amendment

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC. for KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$1,043,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

Versions of this report

Every filing the register holds for this firm, client and period, oldest first. The most recent one is the version LegiList counts.

Filing Filed Amount Counted
3rd Quarter - Report Oct 19, 2017 $166,896 Replaced
3rd Quarter - Amendment (this page) May 25, 2018 $1,043,000 Yes

What was lobbied

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

Health Issues HCR

HR 2212 & S 974 - Creating and Restoring Equal Access To Equivalent Samples Act of 2017: A bill to promote competition in the market for drugs and biological products by facilitating the timely entry of lower-cost generic and biosimilar versions of those drugs and biological products. Marino (R-PA) & Leahy (D-VT) HR 3120 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests. Burgess (R-TX) HR 3245 - Medicare Civil and Criminal Penalties Update Act: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to increase civil money penalties and criminal fines for Federal health care program fraud and abuse, and for other purposes. Bilirakis (R-FL). HR 3263 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the Medicare independence at home medical practice demonstration program. Burgess (R-TX) HR 3921 - Helping Ensure Access for Little Ones, Toddlers, and Hopeful Youth by Keeping Insurance Delivery Stable Act of 2017: To extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes. Burgess (R-TX) HR 3922 - Community Health And Medical Professionals Improve Our Nation Act of 2017: To extend funding for certain public health programs, and for other purposes. Walden (R-OR) S 1354 - Individual Health Insurance Marketplace Improvement Act: A bill to establish an individual market reinsurance fund to provide funding for state individual market stabilization reinsurance programs. Carper (D-DE) S 1827 - Keep Kids' Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017: A bill to extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes. Hatch (R-UT) S 1859 - Healthcare Tax Relief Act: A bill to extend the moratorium on the annual fee on health insurance providers. Gardner (R-CO) H.R. 1215 - Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017: To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. King (R-IA) H.R.1101 - Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2017: To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs with small businesses with respect to medical care for their employees. Johnson (R-TX). H.R.3120 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests. Burgess (R-TX). S. 934 and H.R. 2430 - FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, and for other purposes. Alexander (R-TN) & Walden (R-OR). S. 974 and H.R. 2212 - Creates Act of 2017: To promote competition in the market for drugs and biological products by facilitating the timely entry of lower-cost generic and biosimilar versions of those drugs and biological products. Leahy (D-VT) & Marino (R-PA). HR 173 and S 40 - Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2017: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage. Kelly (R-PA) & Heller (R-NV). HR 314 - Health Care Choice Act of 2017: To repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce. Blackburn (R-TN). HR 706 - Plan Verification and Fairness Act of 2017: To amend title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require verification for eligibility for enrollment during special enrollment periods in PPACA insurance plans, and for other purposes. Blackburn (R-TN). HR 708 - State Age Rating Flexibility Act of 2017: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to change the permissible age variation in health insurance premium rates. Buschon (R-IN). HR 710 -Health Coverage State Flexibility Act of 2017: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to better align the grace period required for non-payment of premiums before discontinuing coverage under qualified health plans with such grace periods provided for under State law. Flores (R-TX). HR 749 - Lower Drug Costs through Competition Act: To increase competition in the pharmaceutical industry. Schrader (D-OR) H.R.1121 - Pre-existing Conditions Protection Act of 2017: To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit application of pre-existing condition exclusions and to guarantee availability of health insurance coverage in the individual and group market, contingent on the enactment of legislation repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes. Walden (R-OR). HR 1175 and S 403 - Health Savings Act of 2017: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve access to health care through expanded health savings accounts, and for other purposes. Paulsen (R-MN) & Hatch (R-UT). HR 1304 - Self-Insurance Protection Act: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the definition of health insurance coverage certain medical stop-loss insurance obtained by certain plan sponsors of group health plans. Roe (R-TN) HR 1628 - American Health Care Act of 2017: To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017. Black (R-TN). HR 1776 & S 771 Improving Access To Affordable Prescription Drugs Act: To improve access to affordable prescription drugs. Schakowsky (D-IL) & Franken (D-MN) HR 2051 - To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that eligible product developers have competitive access to approved drugs and licensed biological products, so as to enable eligible product developers to develop and test new products, and for other purposes. McKinley (R-WV) S 191 - Patient Freedom Act of 2017: To improve patient choice by allowing States to adopt market based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act that increase access to affordable health insurance and reduce costs while ensuring important consumer protections and improving patient care. Cassidy (R-LA) S 637 - Creating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked (C-THRU) Act of 2017: To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide greater transparency of discounts provided by drug manufacturers. Wyden (D-OR)

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: SENATE; Energy, Dept of; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Defense, Dept of (DOD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: S. 974 (115th), H.R. 2051 (115th), H.R. 314 (115th), H.R. 3263 (115th), H.R. 1215 (115th), H.R. 1121 (115th), H.R. 3922 (115th), H.R. 1175 (115th), S. 934 (115th), H.R. 3245 (115th), H.R. 1304 (115th), H.R. 2430 (115th), H.R. 706 (115th), H.R. 3120 (115th), H.R. 1628 (115th), H.R. 710 (115th), H.R. 749 (115th), H.R. 708 (115th), H.R. 1776 (115th), H.R. 1101 (115th), H.R. 173 (115th), H.R. 2212 (115th), H.R. 3921 (115th)

Defense DEF

S 1519 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018: An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. McCain (R-AZ)

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Energy, Dept of; Defense, Dept of (DOD)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

HR 246 - To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Noem (R-SD).

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: Defense, Dept of (DOD); Energy, Dept of; SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 246 (115th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

H. Con. Res. 71 - Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. Black (R-TN) S. Con Res. 3 - A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026. Enzi (R-WY).

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Energy, Dept of; Defense, Dept of (DOD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.Con.Res. 71 (115th), S.Con.Res. 3 (115th)

Insurance INS

HR 372 - Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017: To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. Gosar (R-AZ).

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: Defense, Dept of (DOD); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Energy, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 372 (115th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

HR 849 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017: To repeal the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Roe (R-TN). HR 1148 - Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth-eligible stroke services under the Medicare program. Griffith (R-VA) H.R.3178 - Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the delivery of home infusion therapy and dialysis and the application of the Stark rule under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Brady (R-TX) HR 3726 - Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2017: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to create alternative sanctions for technical noncompliance with the Stark rule under Medicare, and for other purposes. Marchant (R-TX) HR 3727 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include additional telehealth services for purposes of MA organization bids, and for other purposes. Black (R-TN). HR 3729 - Comprehensive Operations, Sustainability, and Transport Act of 2017: To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to facilitate provider and supplier cost reporting of ambulance services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Nunes (R-CA) HR 242 and S 41 - Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2017: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Welch (D-VT) & Klobuchar (D-MN). HR 908 - Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2017: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate a provision under the Medicare Advantage program that inadvertently penalizes Medicare Advantage plans for providing high quality care to Medicare beneficiaries. Kelly (R-PA) HR 1995 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security to provide for national testing of a model of Medicare Advantage value-based insurance design to meet the needs of chronically ill Medicare Advantage enrollees. Black (R-TN) S 870 - Creating High Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to implement Medicare payment policies designed to improve management of chronic disease, streamline care coordination, and improve quality outcomes without adding to the deficit. No Sponsor Listed

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
FISH BROWN —
LAIRD D BURNETT —
MARY PRUDENCE FITZPATRICK —
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON —

Contacted: SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Energy, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Defense, Dept of (DOD)

Bills named: H.R. 1995 (115th), H.R. 3178 (115th), H.R. 242 (115th), H.R. 908 (115th), H.R. 1148 (115th), H.R. 3726 (115th), H.R. 3727 (115th), H.R. 3729 (115th), H.R. 849 (115th)

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