Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
America'S Health Insurance Plans Obo Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing
District of Columbia
50 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
50 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Kathryn Spangler Spangler Strategies LLCCovered position: Dep. Health Policy Director, Senate HELP Committee31 filingsthrough 2026
- Lori Denham Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Assistant - Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA; Legislative Director - Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR25 filingsthrough 2026
- Mary Dee Beal Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Policy Analyst,Senate Republican Policy Committee;Acting Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary,USDA;Senior Advisor to the Secretary,USDA;Legislative Director,Cong. Drew Ferguson,R-GA; Legis. Director, Legis. Assistant, Scheduler Cong. Austin Scott,R7 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: americas-health-insurance-plans-obo-coalition-against-surprise-medical-billing.