1st Quarter - Report

AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP) for AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INC (AHIP)

Period 1st Quarter 2008 Filed Apr 18, 2008 Signed by Julie Simon Miller, Senior Associate Counsel

Official filing
Firm
AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
Client
AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INC (AHIP)
Income
—
Expenses
$1,820,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

MMM (Legislative Issues): H.R. 4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act (Dingell); H.R. 976: Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (Rangel); H.R. 1535: Children's Health First Act (Dingell); H.R. 1663: Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act (Stark) (continued) H.R. 1990: Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act (Pomeroy); H.R. 2147: Healthy Kids Act (Emanuel); H.R. 2945: Medicare Advantage Truth in Advertising Act (Stark); H.R. 3025: Medicare Prescription Drug Savings for Our Seniors Act (Doggett); H.R. 3061: Medicare Part D Drug Class Protection Act (Doggett); H.R. 3162: Childrens Health and Medicare Protection Act (Dingell); H.R. 3932: Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act (Berry); H.R. 3963: Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (Dingell); H.R. 4296: Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection Act (Schwartz); H.R. 5268: Medicaid FMAP (Pallone); H.R. 5480: Medicare Funding Warning Response Act (Hoyer-Boehner); H.R. 5613: Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act (Dingell); S. 3: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act (Reid); S. 130: Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act (Allard); S. 401: Keep Children Covered Act (Rockefeller); S. 706: Medicare Advantage Stabilization Fund (Feingold); S. 799: Community Choice Act (Harkin); S. 895: Children's Health First Act (Clinton); S. 1102: Part D Equity for Low-Income Seniors Act (Bingaman); S. 1103: Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act (Bingaman); S. 1107: Home and Community Services Copayment Equity Act (Smith); S. 1108: Medicare Part D Outreach and Enrollment Enhancement Act (Smith); S. 1200: Indian Health Care Improvement Act (includes Medicaid/MA provisions); S. 1224: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (Rockefeller); S. 1507: Access to Medicare Data Act (Grassley); S. 1544: Medicare Quality Enhancement Act (Gregg); S. 1827: Pharmacist Access and Recognition in Medicare Act (Cochran); S. 1893: Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (Baucus); S. 1954: Pharmacy Access Improvement Act (Baucus); S. 2219: Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act (Durbin); S. 2408: Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection Act (Kerry); S. 2620: Medicaid FMAP (Rockefeller); S. 2662: Medicare Funding Warning Response Act (Baucus-Gregg); S. Con. Res. 70: Budget Resolution; (Conrad); H. Con. Res. 312: Budget Resolution, section 201 (Spratt). MMM (Regulatory Issues) Ongoing implementation issues for the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D prescription drug programs, including risk adjustment methodology and data issues, bidding and payment issues (including MA coding intensity, Part D reinsurance, and low income subsidies), benefit design rules, SSA and CMS premium withhold processing issues, systems issues affecting enrollment and disenrollment processing, enrollment rules, marketing materials review and approval, marketing activities, including conduct of brokers and agents and plan sponsor marketing staff and issues raised by CMS about Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plan marketing, measurement and oversight of plan performance including Special Needs Plans (SNPs), grievance and appeals processes, Medicare/Medicaid integration issues for Special Needs Plans (SNPs), Part D prescription drug event data reporting, Part D formulary rules, Part D pharmacy access standards, and other operational issues; Medicare creditable drug coverage reporting requirements; implementation issues for the Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy program; functionality of the Medicare Personal Plan Finder and Drug Plan Finder; National Medicare Education program; ongoing implementation issues for the Medicare cost plan program including enrollment, marketing materials review and approval, systems issues affecting enrollment and disenrollment processing, payment and other operational issues; Medicare demonstration program on performance-based payments for physician groups; physician quality reporting inititiative; issues relating to Medicare coverage policy and national coverage decisions; Medicare clinical trials; Medicaid managed care regulations and policies, including the Medicaid managed care actuarial soundness standard, quality oversight, grievance and appeals processes, beneficiary information requirements, treatment of Medicaid health plan member hospital days in the upper payment limit calculation; policies affecting State Medicaid funding, including intergovernmental transfers (IGTs) and federal matching funds for graduate medical education; coordination of benefits with state Medicaid programs; Medicaid prescription drug cost/rebate issues affecting Medicaid health plans; health plan-related State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) issues, including eligibility and outreach issues; implementation of Medicaid changes made in Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, including documentation of citizenship requirements, state benefit flexibility options, and Medicaid managed care organization provider tax issues; standards for electronic prescribing; and health information technology standards and policies.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
CARMELLA BOCCHINO —
SUSAN CORONEL —
JILL DOWELL —
BEHRENDS FOSTER —
KAREN IGNAGNI —
ALETHIA JACKSON —
JEFF LEMIEUX —
SUE ROHAN —
CANDACE SCHALLER —
SCOTT STYLES —
KELLY RENEA VOGEL —
HOWARD WEISS —
THOMAS JEROME WILDER —
DUANE WRIGHT —

Contacted: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Social Security Administration (SSA); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE; Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Bills named: S. 706 (110th), S. 1200 (110th), H.R. 4296 (110th), H.R. 5268 (110th), S. 3 (110th), H.R. 2147 (110th), H.R. 3061 (110th), H.R. 3963 (110th), S. 2662 (110th), H.R. 3932 (110th), H.R. 1535 (110th), S.Con.Res. 70 (110th), S. 1893 (110th), S. 2620 (110th), S. 1954 (110th), H.R. 3025 (110th), H.R. 976 (110th), S. 895 (110th), H.R. 1663 (110th), S. 1108 (110th), S. 1102 (110th), S. 1827 (110th), H.R. 1990 (110th), S. 2219 (110th), H.R. 3162 (110th), H.R. 5613 (110th), S. 1103 (110th), H.R. 2945 (110th), S. 1544 (110th), S. 799 (110th), S. 401 (110th), S. 2408 (110th), H.R. 4 (110th), H.R. 5480 (110th), S. 1507 (110th), S. 130 (110th), H.Con.Res. 312 (110th), S. 1224 (110th), S. 1107 (110th)

Insurance INS

INS (Legislative): H.R. 241: Association Health Plans (Johnson); H.R. 493: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (Slaughter); H.R. 758: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act (DeLauro) (continued) INS (Legislative) (cont.) H.R. 836: Cyber-Security Enhancement and Consumer Data Protection Act (Smith); H.R. 948: Social Security Number Protection Act (Markey); H.R. 958: Data Accountability and Trust Act (Rush); H.R. 1081: Insurance Industry Competition Act (DeFazio); H.R. 1282: Medigap Access Improvement Act (English); H.R. 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act (Kennedy); H.R. 2412: Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act (Lowey); H.R. 2676: Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act (Pryce); H.R. 2851: Michelles Law (Hodes); H.R. 2948: Increased Access to Health Insurance Act (Walberg); H.R. 3001: Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (Pallone); H.R. 3200: National Insurance Act (Bean); H.R. 3425: Cancer Screening Coverage Act (Maloney); H.R. 3799: Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act (Maloney); H.R. 3997: Tax Relief Act with MHP Extension (Rangel); H.R. 4460: Health Care Choice Act (Shadegg); H.R. 4848: Mental Health Parity Extension (Pallone); H.R. 4986: Defense Authorization Act with FMLA provision; S. 40: National Insurance Act (Sununu); S. 46: Affordability in the Individual Market Act (Ensign); S. 239: Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act (Feinstein); S. 358: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (Snowe); S. 400: Michelle's Law (Sununu); S. 459: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act (Snowe); S. 495: Personal Data Privacy and Security Act (Leahy); S. 558: Mental Health Parity Act (Domenici); S. 616: HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act (Collins); S. 618: Insurance Industry Competition Act (Leahy); S. 1076: HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act (Burgess); S. 1178: Identity Theft Protection Act (Inouye); S. 1260: Data Security Act (Carper); S. 1298: Healthy Businesses, Healthy Workers Reinsurance Act (Kerry); S. 1588: Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation and Surgery Act (Landrieu); S. 1758: Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (Kennedy); S. 1814: Health Information Privacy and Security Act (Leahy); S. 2168: Identify Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act (Leahy); S. 2236: Preexisting Condition Exclusion Patient Protection Act (Rockefeller); S. 2268: Long Term Care Insurance Integrity Act (Klobuchar); S. 2477: Health Care Choice Act (DeMint); S. 2706: Health Insurance Coverage Protection Act (Dorgan). INS (Regulatory) Insurance regulatory reform; issues related to the coordination of private and public disability income benefits; disability risk management; issues relating to the coordination of benefits between private health insurance plans and Medicaid; crossover fees for Medigap claims; Medigap carrier recoveries related to CMS fraud and abuse enforcement activities.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
CARMELLA BOCCHINO —
ELIZABETH BROOKS —
SUSAN CORONEL —
JILL DOWELL —
BEHRENDS FOSTER —
LINDY HINMAN Medicare Analyst, OMB
KAREN IGNAGNI —
ALETHIA JACKSON —
SCOTT KEEFER —
JEFF LEMIEUX —
CANDACE SCHALLER —
SCOTT STYLES —
KELLY RENEA VOGEL —
THOMAS JEROME WILDER —
DUANE WRIGHT —
MARILYN ZIGMUND LUKE —

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Social Security Administration (SSA); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Treasury, Dept of; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Labor, Dept of (DOL)

Bills named: S. 1588 (110th), S. 46 (110th), S. 1814 (110th), H.R. 2676 (110th), S. 2268 (110th), H.R. 493 (110th), H.R. 3001 (110th), S. 2168 (110th), H.R. 3997 (110th), H.R. 1282 (110th), S. 618 (110th), S. 1178 (110th), S. 1260 (110th), S. 239 (110th), S. 2236 (110th), H.R. 1081 (110th), H.R. 4848 (110th), H.R. 3200 (110th), H.R. 4986 (110th), H.R. 836 (110th), S. 2477 (110th), H.R. 4460 (110th), S. 495 (110th), H.R. 2851 (110th), H.R. 758 (110th), H.R. 958 (110th), S. 40 (110th), S. 1758 (110th), S. 400 (110th), S. 459 (110th), H.R. 1424 (110th), H.R. 3799 (110th), H.R. 241 (110th), S. 1298 (110th), H.R. 2948 (110th), S. 558 (110th), S. 1076 (110th), H.R. 3425 (110th), H.R. 2412 (110th), S. 358 (110th), S. 616 (110th), S. 2706 (110th), H.R. 948 (110th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

TAX (Tax) (Legislative): H.R. 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act (Ryan); H.R. 2302: Health Insurance Affordability Act (King); H.R. 2582: Qualified Long-term Care Fairness Act (Brown-Waite) (continued) (TAX (Tax) Legislative continued) H.R. 2639: Promoting Health for Future Generations Act (Boustany); H.R. 3088: Long-Term Care Act (Terry); H.R. 3234: HSA Improvement and Expansion Act (Cantor); H.R. 3306: Flexible Health Savings Act (Royce); H.R. 3363: Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act (Pomeroy); H.R. 3920: Trade and Globalization Assistance Act (Rangel); H.R. 5559: Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act (Putnam); S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act (Martinez); S. 504: Long-Term Care Trust Account Act (Smith); S. 555: SIMPLE Cafeteria Plan Act (Snowe); S. 897: Alzheimer's Family Assistance Act (Mikulski); S. 1809: Long-Term Care Act (Thune); S. 2237: Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act (Grassley) TAX (Tax) Regulatory: None to report.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
SUSAN CORONEL —
BEHRENDS FOSTER —
KAREN IGNAGNI —
ALETHIA JACKSON —
SCOTT KEEFER —
SCOTT STYLES —
KELLY RENEA VOGEL —
THOMAS JEROME WILDER —
MARILYN ZIGMUND LUKE —

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Social Security Administration (SSA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Bills named: S. 504 (110th), S. 397 (110th), H.R. 2302 (110th), S. 897 (110th), S. 555 (110th), H.R. 3234 (110th), S. 1809 (110th), H.R. 3088 (110th), H.R. 3306 (110th), H.R. 914 (110th), H.R. 3920 (110th), H.R. 2582 (110th), H.R. 2639 (110th), H.R. 5559 (110th), S. 2237 (110th), H.R. 3363 (110th)

Health Issues HCR

HCR (LEGISLATIVE ISSUES): H.R. 506: Health Partnership Through Creative Federalism Act (Baldwin) (continued) H.R. 1368: Personalized Health Information Act (Kennedy); H.R. 2184: Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act (Allen); H.R. 2497: Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act (Cooper); H.R. 2580: Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act (Gingrey); H.R. 2406: Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration Act (Gordon); H.R. 3341: Quality Health Care Coalition Act (Paul); H.R.3796: Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act (Miller); S. 243: Medical Care Access Protection Act (Ensign); S. 244: Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act (Gregg); S. 325: Health Partnership Act (Bingaman); S. 334: Healthy Americans Act (Wyden); S. 1198: Catastrophic Health Coverage Promotion Act (Smith); S. 1456: Federal Employees Electronic Personal Health Records Act (Carper); S. 1481: Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act (Baucus); S. 1490: Federal Employees Electronic Personal Health Records Act (Carper); S. 1693: Wired for Health Care Quality Act (Kennedy) HCR (Regulatory Issues): HIPAA administrative simplification issues, including privacy, security, electronic transactions, code sets, and identifiers; FEHBP enrollment data clearinghouse initiative; issues relating to health insurance plan participation in FEHBP, including contract requirements related to interoperability of health information technology, community rating policies, and similarly sized subscriber group (SSSG) requirements; implementation of the health savings account provisions of the Medicare Act; issues related to Medicare Secondary Payer requirements; issues related to implementation of the National Health Information Infrastructure; issues relating to market consolidation; issues relating to quality improvement; issues related to potential priority research topics for the effective health care program; issues relating to the national health data stewardship; and issues relating to hospital outpatient measurement and reporting.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
CARMELLA BOCCHINO —
ELIZABETH BROOKS —
JILL DOWELL —
BEHRENDS FOSTER —
LINDY HINMAN New Medicare Analyst, OMB
KAREN IGNAGNI —
ALETHIA JACKSON —
SUE ROHAN —
CANDACE SCHALLER —
SCOTT STYLES —
KELLY RENEA VOGEL —
THOMAS JEROME WILDER —
DUANE WRIGHT —
MARILYN ZIGMUND LUKE —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Social Security Administration (SSA); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Treasury, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Bills named: H.R. 2406 (110th), H.R. 3796 (110th), H.R. 2580 (110th), S. 1198 (110th), H.R. 506 (110th), S. 1456 (110th), S. 334 (110th), S. 243 (110th), S. 1481 (110th), S. 1490 (110th), S. 1693 (110th), S. 244 (110th), H.R. 3341 (110th), H.R. 2184 (110th), S. 325 (110th), H.R. 2497 (110th), H.R. 1368 (110th)

Pharmacy PHA

PHA (Pharmacy) (Legislative): H.R. 971: Community Pharmacy Fairness Act (Weiner); H.R. 1038: Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (Waxman); H.R. 5629: Pathway for Biosimilars Act (Eshoo-Barton) (continued) PHA (Legislative) (continued): S. 316: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (Kohl); S. 623: Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (Schumer); S. 885: Community Pharmacy Fairness Act (Isakson); S. 980: Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act (Feinstein); S. 1505: Affordable Biologics for Consumers Act (Gregg); S. 1695: Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (Kennedy) PHA (Regulatory): Issues relating to long term safety and effectiveness of medical devices and drugs, including registries; issues relating to post-market surveillance of drugs and medical devices; issues relating to access for investigational drugs; and issues related to electronic prescribing requirements.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
CARMELLA BOCCHINO —
JILL DOWELL —
BEHRENDS FOSTER —
KAREN IGNAGNI —
ALETHIA JACKSON —
CANDACE SCHALLER —
SCOTT STYLES —
KELLY RENEA VOGEL —
HOWARD WEISS —
THOMAS JEROME WILDER —

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Social Security Administration (SSA); Treasury, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Bills named: H.R. 5629 (110th), S. 1695 (110th), S. 623 (110th), S. 885 (110th), H.R. 971 (110th), S. 316 (110th), H.R. 1038 (110th), S. 1505 (110th), S. 980 (110th)

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