AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS
What was lobbied
5 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Insurance INS
S.244 - Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act: enact a "stacked cap" on all liability payments awarded to medical liability suits against ob/gynocologists. S.243 - Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2007 H.R. 1934 - Prompt Paymnet Improvement Act of 2007
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM STUART BURNS New | — |
| JERONE DINKINS | — |
| CHRISTY GILMOUR | — |
| ROBERT JASAK | — |
| JEANIE KENNEDY | — |
| LINDSAY LAW | — |
| DAVID LOVETT | — |
| CHARLENE MACDONALD | — |
| ERIN RANSFORD | — |
| JACQUELINE ROCHE | — |
| CYNTHIA SYKES | — |
| KATRINA WALLACE | — |
Health Issues HCR
H.R. 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007: promote a permanent solution to the flawed Medicare payment formula. H.R. 6478 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2008: Musculoskeleltal Disease and Condition Legislation. H.R. 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008: SGR and physician reimbursement under Medicare
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM STUART BURNS New | — |
| JERONE DINKINS | — |
| CHRISTY GILMOUR | — |
| ROBERT JASAK | — |
| JEANIE KENNEDY | — |
| LINDSAY LAW | — |
| DAVID LOVETT | — |
| CHARLENE MACDONALD | — |
| ERIN RANSFORD | — |
| JACQUELINE ROCHE | — |
| CYNTHIA SYKES | — |
| KATRINA WALLACE | — |
Medicare/Medicaid MMM
H.R. 1552/S.932 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2007: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services. H.R. 1293/S.1338 - Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2007: place a 2 year moratorium on payment cuts to imaging services. H.R. 1934 - Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2007: bring federal attention to prompt payment reform currently regulated on the state level. H.R. 3038 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2007: reform Medicare physician payment formula H.R. 1408 - Health Information Technology Act of 2007: ensure investments in health to produce interoperable and compatible systems/programs. H.R. 2749/S.1519 - Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007: promote a process for quality measure development, approval and implementation. Use physician's quality assistance fund toward physician payment reform. S.1693 - Wired for Health Care Quality Act: prevent the release of raw Medicare claims data that may be used/interpreted to reflect quality. Practice Expense Payment Under Medicare: ensure awareness for the rising cost of practice expenses and the levels paid through Medicare. Payment of Teaching Physicians Under Medicare: ensure that physicians who teach future healers are adequately reimbursed. Payment of Graduate Medical Education Under Medicare: promote ample/adequate federal assistance to individuals enrolled in medical school who can afford the cost. Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services. H.R. 5613 - Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008: extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain Medicaid regulations through April 1, 2009. Farm Bill Conference Report/H.R. 2419: ensure that provisions to restrict physicians' abilities to responsibly invest in hospitals are not included in final bill.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM STUART BURNS New | — |
| JERONE DINKINS | — |
| CHRISTY GILMOUR | — |
| ROBERT JASAK | — |
| JEANIE KENNEDY | — |
| LINDSAY LAW | — |
| DAVID LOVETT | — |
| CHARLENE MACDONALD | — |
| ERIN RANSFORD | — |
| JACQUELINE ROCHE | — |
| CYNTHIA SYKES | — |
| KATRINA WALLACE | — |
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR
H.R. 3341 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2007: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM STUART BURNS New | — |
| JERONE DINKINS | — |
| CHRISTY GILMOUR | — |
| ROBERT JASAK | — |
| JEANIE KENNEDY | — |
| LINDSAY LAW | — |
| DAVID LOVETT | — |
| CHARLENE MACDONALD | — |
| ERIN RANSFORD | — |
| JACQUELINE ROCHE | — |
| CYNTHIA SYKES | — |
| KATRINA WALLACE | — |
Science/Technology SCI
S.1082/H.R. 2900 - Food and Drug Revitalization Act: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to include unique device identification systems for medical devices. H.R. 2900/S.1082 - Food and Drug Amendments Act of 2007: to provide for reasonable limits for conflicts of interest on FDA advisory committees and to stimulate pediatric device development. Also, to provide unique identification systems for medical devices. S.830/H.R. 1494 - Pediatric Medical Devices Safety and Improvement Act: to stimulate development of necessary medical devices for the pediatric population. H.R. 1956/H.R. 5629/H.R. 1038/S.623 - Regulation Devices Biologics and Combination Products by the FDA: to provide a pathway for follow-on biologics that would not allow for interchangeability without express physician approval. The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2008: to provide for the safety of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries. H.R. 6381 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2008: to amend the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under state and local requirements for medical devices.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM STUART BURNS New | — |
| JERONE DINKINS | — |
| CHRISTY GILMOUR | — |
| ROBERT JASAK | — |
| JEANIE KENNEDY | — |
| LINDSAY LAW | — |
| DAVID LOVETT | — |
| CHARLENE MACDONALD | — |
| ERIN RANSFORD | — |
| JACQUELINE ROCHE | — |
| CYNTHIA SYKES | — |
| KATRINA WALLACE | — |
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.