lobbying_activities: 1261186

Individual lobbying activities reported in quarterly filings. Each row is one issue area for one client — includes the specific issues lobbied on, government entities contacted, and income/expense amounts.

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id	filing_uuid	filing_type	registrant_name	registrant_id	client_name	filing_year	filing_period	issue_code	specific_issues	government_entities	income_amount	expense_amount	is_no_activity	is_termination	received_date
1261186	96d9daaa-f721-4b4c-9af9-38d6f3ac7517	Q2	NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION	29128	NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION	2012	second_quarter	MMM	Medicare: Advocated for a Congressional letter to CMS in support of NJHAs application to extend and expand our ongoing gainsharing pilot in New Jersey; Urged HHS to extend current relief from full implementation of the 25% rule affecting long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) for an additional hospital cost reporting period and/or at least until the end of 2012 in order to give Congress an opportunity to resolve many of the issues affecting LTCHs; Oppose any proposals to fund deficit reduction or other activities with additional cuts to Medicare and Medicaid providers; Oppose targeting cuts to health care programs to avert looming across the board budget cuts (sequestration). Proactively support the measures upholding policies that allow for geographic reclassification of New Jersey hospitals, extension of section 508 of the MMA, approving HIT payments to multi-hospital systems, support urban Medicare dependent hospitals payments, and continued funding for childrens hospitals graduate medical education. Support efforts to rescind proposed coding offset provisions included in CMS' FY 2013 proposed IPPS rule. This proposed provision combines a 2.7 percent reduction to the market basket for documentation and coding adjustments, which is comprised of 1.9 percent for 2008 and 2009 and 0.8 percent for 2010.	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,SENATE		70000	0	0	2012-07-12T15:18:37.647000-04:00