1st Quarter - Report — VIZIENT, INC. for VIZIENT INC (2009)

Firm

VIZIENT, INC.

Client

VIZIENT INC

Income

—

Expenses

$40,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax-exempt Hospital Community Benefit Standard - General outreach efforts regarding not-for-profit hospital tax exemption. Analysis and discussion of potential legislative efforts to update community benefit standard. Monitored amendments related to community benefit standard offered to H.R. 1.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	—
CIDETTE PERRIN	—
STEVEN RIXEN	—

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Bills named: H.R. 1 (111th)

Health Issues HCR

Hospital Group Purchasing - General outreach and education efforts related to hospital group purchasing organizations. Monitoring legislative efforts that could impact hospital group purchasing organizations. Health Care Reform - monitored legislative efforts related to broad health reform. Tracked Congressional efforts... (Cont.) ...related to legislative proposals for federally operated health insurance plan, hospital reimbursement proposals (including gainsharing, bundling and other methods for aligning incentives), and comparative effectiveness research. General tracking of approaches that may be included in Congressional health reform proposals. Health Care Information Technology - (H.R. 1) - Supported including funding for hospital adoption of health information technology and opposed addition of cumbersome privacy regulations that would be difficult and costly for hospitals to implement. State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 275, H.R. 2) - Supported passage of legislation to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, supported inclusion of provision that waives 5 year waiting period for eligible legal immigrant children to enroll in SCHIP program. Supported inclusion of prohibition of physician referral to hospitals in which they have an ownership interest included in S. 275. Unique Device Identification - Supported the promulgation of regulations requiring unique identification for medical devices as required by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act. Physician Payments Sunshine Act - (S. 301) - tracking and monitoring the development of the Sunshine Act and implications for hospitals and health care group purchasing organizations. 340 B (of the Public Health Services Act) Drug Pricing program - general outreach and education efforts regarding program and legislative proposals (H.R. 444)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	—
CIDETTE PERRIN	—
STEVEN RIXEN	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 444 (111th), S. 275 (111th), H.R. 2 (111th), H.R. 1 (111th), S. 301 (111th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Hospital Value-based Purchasing - Quality FIRST Act (to be introduced) - Supported the introduction of legislation that appropriately implements a hospital pay-for-performance system. Outreach and monitoring of other potential legislative efforts. Medicaid Federal Matching Assistance Percentage - (H.R. 1) - supported enhanced federal Medicaid match (Cont. ) Hospital Group Purchasing - Supported the issuance of additional regulatory guidance on the average sales price of prescription drugs under the Medicare program.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
EDWARD GOODMAN	—
CIDETTE PERRIN	—
STEVEN RIXEN	—

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: H.R. 1 (111th)

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.