OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY for OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
What was lobbied
10 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
Maintaining the current charitable tax deduction.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Copyright/Patent/Trademark CPT
Protecting innovators from frivolous patent lawsuits: (Patent Transparency and Improvement Act (S 1720), Innovation Act (HR 3309)
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Veterans VET
Access to care for veterans and physician workforce issues.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Animals ANI
Use of animals in biomedical research.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Pharmacy PHA
340b Drug Discount program for safety net hospitals
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Health Issues HCR
Adequacy of health care workforce associated with expansion of health care coverage; authorizing the extension of funding for Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (S 423); Organ procurement organization certification measures; nutrition standards for school lunches.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Medicare/Medicaid MMM
Preventing reductions to Medicare physician payment: "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014" (HR 4302); Reforming the sustainable growth rate formula: "The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014" (S 2000/HR 4015); Preventing cuts to Medicare Graduate Medical Education and Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments; Preventing reductions to Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient PPS Payments; Provider reimbursements for end of life care counseling: "Personalize Your Care Act of 2013" (HR 1173); Medicare reimbursements for molecular diagnostics; Medicare coding & reimbursement associated with Screening, Brief Invention and Referral to Treatment; Additional Medicare support for Medicare Graduate Medical Education by expanding Medicare resident limits: "Training Tomorrows Doctors Today Act" (HR 1201), "The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013" (HR 1180), "The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013" (S 577); Allowing nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and clinical nurse specialists to certify home health services for Medicare patients: "Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (HR 2504, S 1332); Medicare payment for chronic care: "Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014" (S 1932); Medicare payment for short hospital stays: "Two- Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014" (S 2082); Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (HR 3991/S. 2037); Preventing reductions to the Medicaid program including the provider tax; Improvements to the Medicaid program for medically complex children, "Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2014" (HR 4930).
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Budget/Appropriations BUD
FY 2015 funding for NIH, Title VII and VIII of the Public Health Services Act, Centers for Disease Control, National Science Foundation, Agency for Healthcare Resources and Services Administration, Office of Refugee Resettlement; Maternal Child Health Bureau, NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System, Department of Defense Health Research and funding for lung injury research, spinal cord injury and vaccine development for malaria, dengue virus and chikungunya virus. FY15 funding for VA Research; Impact of Budget Control Act of 2011's Sequestration on federal funding for research.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Education EDU
Providing federal grants to medical schools to enhance the integration of nutrition in medical student curriculum.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs MED
Impact of Budget Control Act of 2011's Sequestration on medical research; Medicare reimbursement for clinical labs that provide molecular diagnostics; use of animals in biomedical research; moving medical research from bench to bedside more quickly and enabling big data research.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LYNNE DAVIS BOYLE | — |
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.