ORGANIZATION
American Medical Association
professional association · DC
45LDA FILINGS
133LOBBYISTS
2FLY-INS
Federal Lobbying Spend
$31.4M
Total LDA-disclosed spend (in-house + retained) across all reported periods.
Most recent LDA filing posted May 2026.
Upcoming Fly-Ins
2Likely Asks (from LD-2 filings)
32supportfor Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act×22
repeala regulation under the Congressional Review Act×16
supportreauthorization of the Health Resources & Services Administration×12
supportlegislation to increase awareness of peripheral artery disease×6
supportamputation awareness and prevention legislation×6
supportexpanded access for providers and telehealth legislation×6
supportstudent loan relief and overhaul legislation×6
supportwound therapy legislation×6
+ 24 more positions surfaced in filings
Topics in Filings
340In addition to the explicit asks above, these policy topics are repeatedly named in this org's LD-2 filings.
Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act×76
No Surprises Act×68
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act×66
Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization×64
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization×58
IHS Workforce Parity Act×56
Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act×56
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters×54
Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization×54
One Big Beautiful Bill Act×52
Fair Access In Residency×46
Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization×44
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Resident Education Deferred Interest×44
Radiation Oncology Case Rate×42
Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act×40
Rural Patient Monitoring×40
Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care×38
Radiology Outpatient Ordering Transmission×36
Telehealth Modernization×36
CONNECT for Health Act×34
Bolstering Research And Innovation Now×32
Efficient Recovery×32
Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act×32
Living Donor Protection Act×32
Seniors Deserve Streamlined Medical Approvals for Timely×32
Youth Sports Facilities Act×32
Issue: Support×24
Dental and Optometric Care×22
Fatal Overdose Reduction Act×22
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act×22
Prescription Pricing for the People Act×22
Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act×22
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization×22
Affordable Care Act×20
Community Training×20
Education, and Access for Medical Students×20
Health Care Affordability Act×20
Improving Care and Access to Nurses×20
Issue: Support reauthorization×20
Medicare program: Medicare Economic Index×20
Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act×20
Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act×20
Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act×20
RNs for Rural Health Act×20
States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment×20
Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services×18
Health and Human Services×18
Modernizing Rural Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Utilization Act×18
Patient Access to Autoimmune Treatments×18
Rural Veterans Improved Access to Benefits Act×18
Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act×16
Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act×16
Alternative Payment Models×16
Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act×16
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026×16
Continuing Appropriations×16
Draft/MACRA/MIPS program reform×16
Draft/Medicare Budget Neutrality and MIPS reform×16
Draft/Value in Health Care Act×16
Drafts/Access to Genetic Counselor Services Act×16
Drafts/GOLD CARD Act×16
Drafts/Medicare Advantage Improvement Act×16
Education, and Related Agencies×16
Expanding Support for Living Donors Act×16
FMAP changes Medicaid program: Community engagement/medical frailty exemption×16
Health Care Freedom for Patients Act×16
Health Information Privacy Reform×16
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act×16
Honor Our Living Donors Act, all provisions H.R. 1×16
Horse protection Act×16
Horse Soring×16
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System×16
Legacy Act×16
Legislative Branch×16
Marketplace Integrity and Affordability×16
Medicaid reforms×16
Medical liability insurance×16
Medical Nutrition Therapy Act×16
Medicare Advantage×16
PREEMIE Reauthorization×16
Prevent All Soring Tactics×16
Preventive Health Savings Act, all provisions FY 2026 Labor×16
Public Law No: 119-75×16
Reintroduction of the Healthy Dog Importation Act×16
Rural Residency Planning and Development Act×16
Rural Veterinary Workforce Act×16
Strategic Teams for Organized Response Mobilization×16
Medicare and Medicaid Issues×14
Physician Payment Reform×14
Issue: Educate Congress on the use of artificial intelligence×12
Issue: Oppose×12
Issue: Support policies×12
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality×10
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention×10
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025×10
National Defense Authorization Act×10
Oppose policies×10
Physician and payment issues×10
Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program×10
Access to administrative claims data×8
Accountable Care Organization improvements×8
Advanced Alternative Payment Model incentives×8
Agriculture and Climate Change×8
Agriculture Research Service, and animal agriculture×8
All issues×8
Aspects related to veterinary medicine, animal health and disease research×8
Biomedical and STEM workforce issues×8
Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education×8
Chronic care management×8
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act×8
Controlled Substances Act×8
Controlled Substances used in veterinary medicine×8
Departments of Labor×8
Doctor Knows Best Act×8
Ensure investment in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health×8
FARAD×8
Farm Bill Reauthorization×8
FDA CVM×8
Food and National Security Act×8
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank×8
Graduate medical education×8
Improving the Medicare Advantage program×8
IRF Review Choice Demonstration×8
Issue: Educate Congress about the likely impact of×8
Medicaid reform×8
National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program×8
National Animal Health Laboratory Network×8
National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank×8
PAW Act×8
People and Animals Well Being Act×8
Presidents FY 2026 Budget Request House and Senate FY 2026 Labor×8
Preventing Medicare cuts×8
Regulatory improvements in value-based payment models×8
Reintroduction of the Foreign Animal Disease Prevention×8
Res. 14×8
Support robust 302×8
Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act×8
Tax issues×8
Telehealth expansion/waivers×8
USDA APHIS×8
Value-based physician reimbursement×8
Veterinary Services Grant Program×8
Wildlife-Agriculture Disease Prevention Act×8
DETERRENT Act×6
Doctors in Our Borders Act×6
Educate Congress on policies×6
Expanding Medical Education Act×6
Explain the societal and community benefit related to such activities×6
Fair Access in Residency Act×6
FY 2026 Presidents Request on Military Construction×6
HALT Fentanyl Act×6
Health care for people with disabilities×6
Higher education act×6
Issue: Educate Congress on development of laboratory developed tests×6
Issue: Educate Congress on research and schedule I substances×6
Issue: Educate Congress on status of Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services×6
Issue: Encourage changes to Health Resources & Services Administration×6
Issue: Oppose burdensome administrative requirements for Veterans Affairs×6
Issue: Oppose disruptions to Veterans Affairs×6
Issue: Oppose inappropriate use of march-in authority×6
Issue: Oppose insurance plans that do not meet Affordable Care Act×6
Issue: Oppose limitations on animal research×6
Issue: Oppose reduction of Medicare Direct Graduate Medical Education×6
Issue: Provide guidance on the implementation×6
Issue: Support ability of Health Resources & Services Administration×6
Issue: Support codification of Health Resources & Services Administrations×6
Issue: Support creation of new Medicare outpatient Indirect Medical Education×6
Issue: Support efforts to reform×6
Issue: Support extension of National Health Service Corps×6
Issue: Support loan repayment incentives for rural health care providers×6
Issue: Support Medicare graduate medical education×6
Issue: Support permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals×6
Issue: Support policy×6
Issue: Support Public Service Loan Forgiveness×6
Issue: Support research with non-human primates and other animals×6
Issue: Support tax exempt status for higher education institutions×6
Issue: Support tax incentives for clinical preceptors×6
MACRA/MIPS implementation×6
Maintain NIH salary cap at Executive Level II×6
Medicaid access to podiatry and program integrity×6
Medical student loan assistance×6
Medicare physician fee schedule×6
Medicare therapeutic shoe program for patients with diabetes×6
Medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders×6
Military Construction×6
Oppose duplicative teaching health system and hospital reporting and policies×6
Oppose efforts to impose additional reporting requirements on 340B hospitals×6
Oppose efforts to restrict 340B patient definition×6
Oppose efforts to restrict hospital eligibility for the 340B program×6
Oppose limitations on facilities and administrative reimbursement×6
Oppose limitations to institutions financial aid access based on tax status×6
Oppose Medicare hospital, and provider cuts×6
Oppose reducing Medicare reimbursement for 340B-acquired drugs×6
Oppose site-neutral expansion to excepted off-campus provider-based departments×6
Participating in national standard of practice project×6
Redesigning Medicare graduate medical education×6
Reproductive health×6
Restoring Americas Health Care Workforce and Readiness Act×6
Risky Research Review Act×6
Royalty Transparency Act×6
Rural Physician Workforce Production Act×6
Strengthening Pathways to Health Professions Act×6
Student loan forgiveness for providers working in underserved areas×6
Student loan reform×6
Substance use disorders×6
Support eliminating student loan origination fees and interest capitalization×6
Support extension of alternative payment model×6
Support mandatory 12-month Medicaid coverage for post-partum individuals×6
Support measures to preserve and strengthen the 340B Drug Pricing Program×6
Support mitigation of Medicare Physician Fee Schedule×6
Support policies×6
Working with VA on creation and implementation×6
Act, all provisions H.R. 1×4
Animals, and Research Ethics×4
Appropriations for FY 2024 and FY 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act×4
Bipartisan Health Care Act×4
Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective×4
Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies×4
Diversity, equity, and inclusion×4
Enhanced Premium Tax Credits extension×4
FMAP changes×4
Gun Violence Prevention Research×4
Hospital at home program×4
Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization×4
Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation×4
Issue: Encourage The Department of Health & Human Services×4
Issue: Prevent rescissions of COVID relief funding×4
Issue: Provide input on proposed National Institutes of Health×4
Issue: Support maintaining membership in the World Health Organization×4
MATE Act×4
Medical Student Education Authorization Act×4
Medicare provider privacy×4
Medicare reimbursement issues×4
Menopause management×4
Mental health reform×4
No Unreasonable Payments×4
Oppose limits on Affordable Care Act×4
Oppose misleading risk sharing requirements×4
P.L.119-21 One Big Beautiful Bill Act×4
Post-Acute care reform×4
Preventing fraud and abuse×4
Review Choice Demonstration×4
Safety From Violence for Healthcare Employees×4
Save Pets×4
Support allocation of resources to VA to address funding shortfall×4
Support disbursement of appropriated funds×4
Support funding for Health Resources and Services Administration×4
Support permanent charitable giving deduction for non-itemizing taxpayers×4
Support preservation of non-profit tax status of AAMC member institutions×4
Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization×4
Trans health×4
Access to rehabilitationservices and devices×2
Act, 2026, provisions related to Medicaid×2
Act, 2026, provisions relating to Medicaid S.J.Res.8×2
Act, all provisions Health Resources and Services Administration×2
Act/broad reform×2
Address the NIH salary cap×2
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health×2
American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act×2
American Relief Act, 2025, provisions relating to Medicare physician payment×2
Appropriations for FY 2025 and FY 2026 One Big Beautiful Bill Act×2
Children's Health Insurance Program×2
Community TEAMS Act×2
Connected Maternal Online Monitoring×2
Consolidated Appropriations Act×2
Cure Hepatitis C Act×2
Department of State×2
Directing Our Countrys Transfer of Residency Slots×2
Draft EMPOWER for Health Act×2
Draft Providing Resources and Opportunities for Health Education and Learning×2
Education and health×2
Ensure appropriate proportion of forward funded awards×2
Essential health benefits×2
Expanded services through the Veterans Affairs Administration×2
Fighting Trade Cheats Act×2
Fiscal Responsibility Act×2
Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Reconciliation H×2
FMAP changes, provider taxes, and APMs H×2
Graduate Medical Education, student loans×2
H1B Visas and Immigration Issues×2
Health reform×2
Health Tech Investment Act, all provisions H.R. 1×2
Healthcare Cybersecurity Act×2
House FY 2025 Commerce and Justice×2
Informatics and artificial intelligence, prior authorization reform×2
IRF Review Choice DemonstrationProposal. 17×2
Issue: Educate Congress on impact of Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act×2
Issue: Ensure bill does not hamper the National Institutes of Health×2
Issue: Ensure implementation×2
Issue: Oppose the redesign of Medicare Indirect Medical Education×2
Issue: Provide comments on the Make America Healthy Again strategy×2
Issue: Support 1-year reauthorization×2
Issue: Support clarifying definition of professional student programs×2
Issue: Support codification of Rural Residency Planning and Development grants×2
Issue: Support delay in implementation×2
Issue: Support extension of Acute Hospital at Home program×2
Issue: Support extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home program×2
Issue: Support Health Resources & Services Administration×2
Issue: Support increased Medicare funding for graduate medical education×2
Issue: Support oversight×2
Issue: Support the US Preventive Services Task Force×2
Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act×2
Medical Supply Chain Resiliency Act×2
Medicare and Medicaid programs: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization×2
Medicare offset proposals impacting Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities×2
Medicare physician payments, and pharmacy benefit managers×2
Medicare program: Accountable Care Organization×2
Medicare program: Alternative Payment Models×2
Medicare program: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System×2
Medicare program: Physician inflationary updates/Medicare Economic Index×2
National Science Foundation×2
P.L. 119-4×2
Patient Matching And Transparency in Certified Health IT×2
PBM transparency, artificial intelligence×2
Pharmacy Benefit Manager×2
Physician and Patient Safety Act, all provisions H.R. 1×2
Preservation of Medicaid access×2
Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act×2
Res 7 and H.Con×2
Res. 20×2
Res. 35×2
Restoring Trade Fairness Act×2
Rural Hospital Stabilization Act×2
Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act×2
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration×2
Support codification of covered entities ability to use contract pharmacies×2
Support disbursement of appropriated funding×2
Support expansion of CDC-supported genomic sequencing×2
Support funding for CDC Social Determinants of Health program×2
Support funding for maternal health×2
Support funding for telehealth resource centers×2
Support funding for the National Health Service Corps×2
Support mandatory funding for public health preparedness×2
Support ongoing investment in public health infrastructure×2
Telehealth Scope of Practice Private practice physician issues×2
Three Hour Rule×2
Tobacco product standard/nicotine yield×2
VA Supremacy Project×2
Veterans Affairs×2
Workforce Mobility Act×2
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Lobbyists on Record
133JON ADAME · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former CoS, LD, GC (Sen. Blackburn); Counsel (Rep. Bla…
LAUREN ARONSON · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former Dir (Office of Legis, CMS); Prof Staff Mem, (Ho…
LEELA BAGGETT · Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.c.former Principal
MICHAEL BARNETT · Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.c.former Director, Government Relations
ERIC BERGREN · Todd Strategy Groupformer Chief of Staff, Rep. Brett Guthrie; Staff Assis…
JOSEPH BROWN · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former Sr Prof Staff (EPW Comm Maj/Sen. Moore Capito);…
ERICA CHABOT · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former Staff Dir (Sen Ag Comm); Dep CoS (Senate Consul…
EVAN COLLIER · Alston & Bird LLPformer Legislative Correspondent and Staff Assistant, …
STEPHEN COTE · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former Staff Dir/Shrd Emp (House Fin Srvs/McHenry), St…
KATHERINE COTTON · Todd Strategy Groupformer Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Leg…
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS · Capitol Hill Consulting Groupformer Staff Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Senior …
NICHOLE DISTEFANO · Mehlman Consulting, Inc.former LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Senator McCaskill); Assoc Admi…
+ 121 more lobbyists on record