lobbying_activities: 1401603

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.

Data license: Public Domain (U.S. Government data) · Data source: Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API

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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
1401603	57009e7e-b4ed-4dfc-a28b-122f1db4f1e6	2A	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS	52105	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS	2013	second_quarter	MMM	Prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services.Ensure investments in health to produce interoperable and compatible systems/programs. Funding to help award recipients defray the cost of data collection requirements. Practice Expense Payment Under Medicare: ensure awareness for the rising cost of practice expenses and the levels paid through Medicare. Payment of Teaching Physicians Under Medicare: ensure that physicians who teach future healers are adequately reimbursed. Payment of Graduate Medical Education Under Medicare: promote ample/adequate federal assistance to individuals enrolled in medical school who can afford the cost. Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services.	Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),Food & Drug Administration (FDA),Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC),SENATE			0	0	2013-06-05T14:08:38.303000-04:00