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
46 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$160K 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 26 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 441114th CongressTo provide for a technical change to the Medicare long-term care hospital moratorium exception.7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 202114th CongressA bill to provide for a technical change to the Medicare long-term care hospital moratorium exception.7 filingsthrough 2016
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen47 filingsthrough 2026
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs47 filingsthrough 2026
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House47 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: kindred-healthcare-d-b-a-scionhealth.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Medicare Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing Act of 2015
6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1211114th CongressA bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that payment under the Medicare program to a long-term care hospital for inpatient services shall not be made at the applicable site neutral payment rate for certain discharges involving severe wounds, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2108114th CongressPreserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5273114th CongressHelping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2455117th CongressTRIA Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4378116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1924119th CongressSecuring Access to Care for Seniors in Critical Condition Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act1 filingthrough 2023
S. 3430118th CongressBetter Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
Michael Chappell
Fierce Government Relations
Covered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering
47 filingsthrough 2026
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell45 filingsthrough 2025
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence42 filingsthrough 2025
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor41 filingsthrough 2024
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole33 filingsthrough 2025
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB12 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick CliftonFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. to the President for Operations, Executive Office of the President, President Donald J. Trump (17-19).5 filingsthrough 2026
Jacobus VreeburgFierce Government RelationsCovered position: House Homeland Sec. Cmte.-Staff Asst., Dep. Parl., Parl., Rep. Messer-Leg. Dir., House Rep. Policy Cmte.-Staff Dir., NSC-Staff Officer, Acting Dep. Exec. Sec., Dep. Exec. Sec., House Rep. Conference-Policy Dir., Rep. Stefanik-Policy Dir., USUN-W-Dir.4 filingsthrough 2026
James WilliamsFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Sen. Finance Cmte: Sr Tax/Econ Policy Adv & Tax/IRS Subcmte Staff Dir | Sen. Thune: Sr Policy/Tax/Trade Policy Adv | Sen. Roberts: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Econ Policy Adv | Sen. Hatch: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv | Rep. Marchant: Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 12 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
