1st Quarter - Report

HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION OF NYS for HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION OF NYS

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$220,000
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

S.458 Physician Pathology Services Continuity Act; S.558 The Mental Health Parity Act of 2007;S.630 Rural Health Services Preservation Act; S.860 Early Treatment for HIV Act; S.969 Oppose reversal of NLRB guidance on when charge nurses are classified as supervisors; S.1041 Employee Free Choice Act Oppose Card Check process; S.1693 Health Information Exchange Act; S.1604 Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act of 2007; S.2041 The False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007; S.2460 Extend Moratorium on Medicaid Regulations affecting Intergovernmental Transfers; S.2499 Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007; S.2620 Temporary increase in federal medical assistance percentages under Medicaid program; S.2819 Extend and Establish Moratorium on Medicaid Rules; increase FMAP; H.R.800 Employee Free Choice Act Oppose Card Check process; H.R.866 Secret Ballot Protection Act; H.R.976 Childrens Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2007; H.R.1105 Physician Pathology Services Continuity Act; H.R.1177 Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act; H.R.1424 Paul Wellstone Mental Health & Addiction Equity Act of 2007; H.R.1644 Oppose reversal of NLRB guidance on when charge nurses are classified as supervisors; H.R.1663 Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2007; H.R.2159 rural Health Services Preservation Act; H.R.2406 Establishes NIST Role in Standard Setting for Health IT; H.R.3162 Children Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007; H.R.3326 Early Treatment for HIV Act; H.R.3533 Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act; H.R.4105 One-year Moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program; H.R.4854 False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007; H.R.5268 Temporary increase in federal medical assistance percentages under Medicaid program; H.R.5613 Extend and Establish Moratorium on Medicaid Rules; FFY 2009 Budget and Budget Resolutions/Medicare and Medicaid Cuts; FFY 2009 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Pension Appropriations bill; FFY 2009 Medicare Inpatient Hospital PPS Rules; CY 2009 Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS Rules; FFY 2009 Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility PPS and 75% Rule, Rules; CY 2009 Medicare Outpatient PPS Rules; FFY 2009 Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Rules CY 2009 Medicare Home Health Agency PPS Rules; CY 2009 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Update; CMS Proposed Rule to Limit Intergovernmental Transfers and Certified Public Expenditures; CMS Proposed Value-Based Purchasing Program; CMS Proposed Rule on Medicaid Graduate Medical Education Payments; State Childrens Health Insurance Program funding IRS Form 990 Revision; Stark and physician self-referral regulations; Hospital pricing transparency; Not-for-profit hospital tax-exempt status; Medicaid regulations affecting public hospitals, GME, provider tax, outpatient coverage, targeted case management, rehabilitation and school based health; Pay for Performance / value based purchasing; Health information technology; Hospital charity care/financial aid; Coverage for undocumented immigrants; Associated health plans; Coverage for the uninsured; Health savings accounts and high-deductible health plans; Emergency preparedness; Immigration; Medicare wage index; Community benefit reporting; Mental health parity; Limited service hospitals; Department of Housing and Urban Developments Federal Housing Assistance mortgage program for hospitals; Defined benefit pension plans; National Institute of Health funding; Health care workforce recruiting and training funding; Hospital infection reporting; Medical error reporting Hospital performance measure reporting; Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Demonstration Project/national expansion Competitive bidding for clinical laboratory services; Expansion of the Medicaid 340B drug pricing program; CMS August 17th directive to states establishing new requirements for increasing SCHIP coverage; False claims act expansion; Medicare funding warning/trigger; Medicare GME residency slot distribution; National Health Service Corp funding; Public Health Service Act nursing and allied health professions program funding; HRSAs health professions shortage areas and medically underserved areas.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
KATHLEEN CICCONE —
KEVIN KRAWIECKI —
STEVEN KROLL —
DANIEL SISTO —
RAYMOND SWEENEY —
SUSAN VAN METER —

Contacted: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Office of Management & Budget (OMB); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: S. 558 (110th), S. 630 (110th), S. 1693 (110th), H.R. 2406 (110th), H.R. 3162 (110th), H.R. 4105 (110th), S. 1041 (110th), S. 2499 (110th), S. 2460 (110th), H.R. 5268 (110th), S. 969 (110th), H.R. 1177 (110th), H.R. 4854 (110th), S. 2041 (110th), S. 860 (110th), H.R. 800 (110th), H.R. 1105 (110th), H.R. 976 (110th), H.R. 3533 (110th), H.R. 1424 (110th), S. 1604 (110th), H.R. 1644 (110th), H.R. 1663 (110th), S. 2620 (110th), H.R. 5613 (110th), H.R. 3326 (110th), H.R. 866 (110th), S. 458 (110th), H.R. 2159 (110th), S. 2819 (110th)

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.