4th Quarter - Report — UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER for UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER (2012)

Firm

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER

Client

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER

Income

—

Expenses

$270,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Health Issues HCR

Issues related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 around health care reform including coverage expansion, medicaid expansion, medicaid/medicare disproportionate share payments, hopsital payment updates, health insurance reforms, payment bundling, readmissions, accountable care organizations, value-based purchasing, hospital-acquired conditions, medicare physician payments, physician self-referral, independent payment advisory board, 340B drug program, and liability reform.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues related to the tax-exempt status of not-for-profit health care entities.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Insurance INS

Issues related to the commercial health insurance market in western Pennsylvania and promotion of greater access to health care for all Americans.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Hospital wage index reclassification and resolution of regional disparities. Issues related to avoiding the full implementation of cuts to payments for hospital care contained in the Affordable Care Act; cuts to payments for evaluation and management services provided in outpatient departments; reductions to payments for graduate medical education; additional across-the-board cuts to Medicare inpatient hospital rates through the use of coding adjustments; restrictions on state provider assessments; and reductions to low-income Medicare beneficiaries (bad debt). Clarifying the Medicare and Medicaid health information technology (HIT) incentive payments. Worked to improve the Medicare payment methodology for unique teaching and research-centered inpatient rehabilitation facilities and creating a new pool of graduate medical education (GME) funding for womens hospitals. Preventing the scheduled cut to physicians' Medicare payments from taking effect.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Issues related to unionizing efforts.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Urge support for delaying the Medicare extenders, sequestration, physician cuts and certain taxes.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT A KENNEDY	—
RYAN ALAN YUHAS	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

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.