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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 6300 NORTH RIVER ROAD |
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City | ROSEMONT |
State | IL |
Zip Code | 60018 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 52105-12
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6. House ID# 347650000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2010 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date | |
11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: William Robert Martin, III, MD, Medical Director |
Date | 10/27/2010 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code LBR
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 1493 - Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009: Ensure patient access to quality health care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code HCR
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 1021/S.1548 - Access to America's Orthopedic Services Act of 2009: Musculoskeletal Disease and Condition Legislation to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes
H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physician Workforce Act of 2009
H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010
H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt
H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act
H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010
H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1678 - Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009: amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
H.R. 3856 - Bone Health Promotion and Research Act of 2009: Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) authoirize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a National Bone Health Program for the control, preention, and surveillance of osteoposoris and related bone diseases and to coordinate and carry out national education and outreach activities in support of such program; (2) authorize the Secretary to award grants to states and Indian tribes for comprehensive osteoporosis and related bone disease control and prevention programs; and (3) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on osteopososis and related bone diseases, including osteogenesis imperfecta and Paget's disease of the bone.
Surgical Workforce Shortage
Truth and Transparency
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17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code INS
16. Specific lobbying issues
Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act: enact a "stacked cap" on all liability payments awarded to medical liability suits against ob/gynecologists.
S.45 - Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2009: improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.
Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2009
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
MD |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code SCI
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 1346/S.540 - Medical Device Safety Act of 2009: to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices.
H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
H.R. 2400 - Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resisance Act
H.R. 2813 - National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009
H.R. 1549/S.619 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
MD |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code BUD
16. Specific lobbying issues
Trauma Appropriations
H.R. 3326/S.9975 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
H.R. _____/S.______ - Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
H.R. _____/S.______ - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011
H.R. _____/S.______ - Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Act, 2011
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
MD |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code MMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 1829/S.950 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2009: prevent direct access to physical therapists in order to avoid unnecessary and overuse of therapy services.
H.R. 3693 - Ensuring the Future Physican Workforce Act of 2009
H.R. 4851 - Continuing Extension Act of 2010
H.J. RES. 45 - Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt
H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act
H.R. 3962 - The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010
H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
H.R. 4985 - Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2010
H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
H.R. 1031 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2009
H.R. 1911 - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Health Information Technology Meaningful Use
Stark II - Physician Ban on Self-Referral and Other Fraud & Abuse: ensure that Stark laws do not prevent timely access to quality medical services.
Surgical Workforce Shortage
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
William Robert |
Martin, III |
MD |
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Graham |
Newson |
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Jeanie |
Kennedy |
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Alanna |
Porter |
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Legislative Director for Jon Porter (R-NV) |
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Jamie |
Gregorian |
JD |
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Lauren |
Bates |
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Francesca |
Gage |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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