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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
12 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 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 — 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.
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1021114th CongressProtecting the Integrity of Medicare Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.13 filingsthrough 2017
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance13 filingsthrough 2017
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin13 filingsthrough 2017
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: council-for-medicare-integrity-amer-coalition-for-healthcare-claims-integrity.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1526114th CongressMedicare Audit Improvement Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 810114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2156114th CongressMedicare Audit Improvement Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2652114th CongressProtecting Patients and Physicians Against Coding Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 818114th CongressPRIME Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 861114th CongressPRIME Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2368114th CongressAFIRM Act5 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Elizabeth T Murray
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham
12 filingsthrough 2017
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS8 filingsthrough 2015
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner7 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
