1st Quarter - Report — ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY IMAGING for ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY IMAGING (2009)

Firm

ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY IMAGING

Client

ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY IMAGING

Income

—

Expenses

$55,000

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

MedPAC: recommendations to Congress regarding imaging reimbursement changes; physician self-referral House/Senate: MedPAC recommendations; physician self-referral; White House sugg. to use RBMs to manage imaging utilization CMS: 2009 regulation requiring separate enrollment and billing for mobile imaging units White House: use of Radiology Benefits Managers (RBMs) to manage imaging utilization

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ALLISON FOX	—

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); White House Office; Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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.