24 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2017 · latest filed Oct 20, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
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.
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
24 filings
$390K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$390K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: summa-health-system.
2 filings
$70K 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.
113th Congress
Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1920113th CongressDSH Reduction Relief Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2245112th CongressPreserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2500112th CongressEqual Access and Parity for Multi-Campus Hospitals Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2243112th CongressMedicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 296112th CongressPreserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 4015113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 2110113th CongressMedicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.1 filingthrough 2013
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.
