73 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 14, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$10.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$10.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$348K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
70 filings
$10.9M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
23 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4392115th CongressTo provide that the provision of the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs final regulation relating to changes in the payment amount for certain drugs and biologicals purchased under the 340B drug discount program shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act5 filingsthrough 2015
JOHN FRANCIS WILLIAMS iiiHall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.Covered position: Press Secretary, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight; Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Burton.23 filingsthrough 2018
Mark L. HayesAscension Health14 filingsthrough 2019
Peter M LeiboldAscension Health
The filings
The 20 most recent of 73 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: ascension-health.
$108K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
11 filings
$4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$880K 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 spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
115th Congress
American Health Care Act of 2017
4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3545115th CongressOverdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1850115th CongressProtecting Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 297113th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1557113th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2372115th CongressVA MISSION Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5273114th CongressHelping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 985116th CongressFAST Generics Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2646114th CongressHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2680114th CongressMental Health Reform Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1343110th CongressHealth Care Safety Net Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
14 filingsthrough 2019
Lee DuongAscension Health13 filingsthrough 2019
Susan Nestor LevyAscension Health9 filingsthrough 2009
