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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | ONE KAISER PLAZA, ORDWAY BLDG. |
Address2 | 27th FLOOR |
City | OAKLAND |
State | CA |
Zip Code | 94612 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 21027-12
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6. House ID# 300780000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2015 |
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 |
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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: Anthony Barrueta |
Date | 1/15/2016 8:15:56 PM |
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
Department of Health & Human Services:
Implementation of Health insurance exchanges; Implementation of Qualified Health Plans; Delivery system reform.
HR 6 - 21st Century Cures Act: To accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of 21st century cures. Upton (R-MI)
HR 138 - Access to Insurance for All Americans Act: Regarding the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). Issa (R-CA)
HR 160 & S 149 - Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on medical devices. Paulsen (R-MN) and Hatch (R-UT)
HR 248 - American Job Protection Act - repeal the ACA's employer responsibility requirements. Boustany (R-LA)
HR 1624 & S 1099 - Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act: To amend title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to revise the definition of small employer. Guthrie (R-KY) and Scott (R-SC)
HR 2029 - Title as Enacted: Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 and the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015: Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes. Dent (R-PA)
HR 2050 - Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage. Courtney (D-CT)
S 123 & HR 221- To repeal the ACA risk corridor program. Rubio (R-FL) & Harris (R-MD)
S 157 - To repeal the ACA's Individual mandate, employer responsibility requirements and medical device excise tax. Cassidy (R-LA)
S 305 - To repeal the ACA's employer responsibility requirements. Hatch (R-UT) and Alexander (R-TN)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)
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 |
Laird |
Burnett |
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Fish |
Brown |
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Joseph |
Williamson |
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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
Department of Health & Human Services:
Medicare Advantage: operational issues, annual payment updates and policy changes.
HR 2505 - Medicare Advantage Coverage Transparency Act of 2015: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the annual reporting of data on enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans. Kelly (R-PA)
HR 2507 - Increasing Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish an annual rulemaking schedule for payment rates under Medicare Advantage. Brady (R-TX)
HR 2570 - Strengthening Medicare Advantage through Innovation and Transparency for Seniors of 2015: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of patient encounters in ambulatory surgical centers in determining meaningful EHR use, establish a demonstration program requiring the utilization of Value-Based Insurance Design to demonstrate that reducing the copayments or coinsurance charged to Medicare beneficiaries for selected high-value prescription medications and clinical services can increase their utilization and ultimately improve clinical outcomes and lower health care expenditures, and for other purposes. Black (R-TN)
HR 2581 - Preservation of Access for Seniors in Medicare Advantage Act of 2015: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a 3-year demonstration program to test the use of value-based insurance design methodologies under eligible Medicare Advantage plans, to preserve Medicare beneficiary choice under Medicare Advantage, to revise the treatment under the Medicare program of infusion drugs furnished through durable medical equipment, and for other purposes. Brady (R-TX)
HR 2582 - Seniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 2015: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to delay the authority to terminate Medicare Advantage contracts for MA plans failing to achieve minimum quality ratings, to make improvements to the Medicare Adjustment risk adjustment system, and for other purposes. Buchanan (R-FL)
S. 2425 - Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act: To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve payments for complex rehabilitation technology and certain radiation therapy services, to ensure flexibility in applying the hardship exception for meaningful use for the 2015 EHR reporting period for 2017 payment adjustments, and for other purposes. Portman (R-OH)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)
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 |
Laird |
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Brown |
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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 TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
S 183 & HR 928 - To repeal the Health Insurer Tax. Barrasso (R-WY) & Boustany (R-LA)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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 |
Laird |
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Joseph |
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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
H.Con.Res. 27 - House Budget Resolution. Price (D-NC)
S.Con.Res. 11 - Senate Budget Resolution. Enzi (R-WY)
H.R. 3762 - Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015: An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 2002 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. Price (R-GA)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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 |
Laird |
Burnett |
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Fish |
Brown |
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Joseph |
Williamson |
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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 CPI
16. Specific lobbying issues
HR 1560 - Protecting Cyber Networks Act: To improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes. Nunes (R-CA)
HR 1770 - Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015: To require certain entities who collect and maintain personal information of individuals to secure such information and to provide notice to such individuals in the case of a breach of security involving such information, and for other purposes. Blackburn (R-MN)
S. 754 - Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015: To improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes. Burr (R-NC)
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 |
Laird |
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Fish |
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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 CPT
16. Specific lobbying issues
S 1137 - PATENT Act, Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes. Grassley (R-IA)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Joseph |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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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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