1st Quarter - Report

MISSOURI HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION for MISSOURI HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$80,000
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.

Health Issues HCR

-H.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Specific topics included section 5002 (Temporary Increase in Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments), section 5003 (Extension of Moratoria on Certain Medicaid Regulations), section 4102 (funding of health information technology as it applies to critical access hospitals), section 4301 (Medicare indirect medical education payments), appropriations to the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (comparative effectiveness research) -Childrens Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009. Specific topics included (1) the role of SCHIP in the Missouri Medicaid program and (2) restrictions on physician self-referral in the Medicare program included in the version of the legislation adopted by the House of Representatives. -Criteria for designation of hospital facilities as critical access hospitals for purposes of Medicare and Medicaid payment -Funding for the programs of the Office of Insured Health Care Facilities in the Department of Housing and Urban Development -Comment letter on TriCare payments to hospitals as revised by a proposed regulation

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DWIGHT L FINE —
DANIEL R LANDON —
MARC D SMITH —

Contacted: SENATE; Defense, Dept of (DOD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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.