2nd Quarter - Report — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HOMECARE for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HOMECARE (2013)

Firm

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HOMECARE

Client

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HOMECARE

Income

—

Expenses

$120,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Issues pertaining to durable medical equipment including: bidding, power wheelchairs, oxygen, diabetic supplies, negative pressure wound therapy, Medicare audits sequestration, and fraud abuse; Tax Reform Act of 2013, all provisions; H.R. 942/S. 948 - Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013, all provisions; H.R. 1250 - Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013, all provisions; H.R. 27 - Small Supplier Fairness in Bidding Competition Act of 2013, all provisions;H.R. 1717 - Medicare DMEPOS Market Pricing Program Act of 2013, all provisions; H.R. 2375 - Transparency and Accountability in Medicare Bidding Act of 2013, all provisions.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
HEATHER BOYD New	Intern, Rep. Mario Diaz Balart
KIM BRASON New	N/A
JULIE DRIVER	—
PETER RANKIN	—
TYLER WILSON	—
JAY WITTER	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Office of Management & Budget (OMB); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Bills named: H.R. 1250 (113th), H.R. 27 (113th), H.R. 2375 (113th), H.R. 942 (113th), H.R. 1717 (113th), S. 948 (113th)

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.