3rd Quarter - Report — QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED for QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED (2011)

Firm

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Client

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Income

—

Expenses

$210,000

Expense method

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

What was lobbied

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

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare reimbursement related to the 2011 Physician Fee Schedule, provisions in the Affordable Care Act and federal budget negotiations (no specific bills); self-referral abuses relating to anatomic pathology (no specific bills); reimbursement and oversight of clinical laboratory services (no specific bills); and S. 365, Budget Control Act of 2011.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
FAITH A CRISTOL	—
ARIEL ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ	—

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

Bills named: S. 365 (112th)

Health Issues HCR

Oversight of laboratory services and genetic information and testing (no specific bills); the Gestational Diabetes Act (H.R. 2194, S. 1221).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
FAITH A CRISTOL	—

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

Bills named: H.R. 2194 (112th), S. 1221 (112th)

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.