The American Hospital Association spent $4.2 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, up from $3.7 million in the first quarter of the year, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Unlike other healthcare trade groups that dropped their lobbying spend following the passing of healthcare reform in March, AHA increased its spending by 13 percent.
AHA outspent America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, which spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter, and the smaller Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned hospitals. FAH spent $660,000 on lobbying in the second quarter, down 16 percent from the first quarter of the year.
The AHA lobbied heavily on issues of reform, efforts to fight Medicare fraud, malpractice litigation reform and bills to repeal Medicare outpatient therapy caps.
Read the Bloomberg Business Week report on AHA's lobbying.
Read other coverage on healthcare lobbying:
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Unlike other healthcare trade groups that dropped their lobbying spend following the passing of healthcare reform in March, AHA increased its spending by 13 percent.
AHA outspent America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, which spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter, and the smaller Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned hospitals. FAH spent $660,000 on lobbying in the second quarter, down 16 percent from the first quarter of the year.
The AHA lobbied heavily on issues of reform, efforts to fight Medicare fraud, malpractice litigation reform and bills to repeal Medicare outpatient therapy caps.
Read the Bloomberg Business Week report on AHA's lobbying.
Read other coverage on healthcare lobbying:
- Health Insurer Trade Group Spends Big on Lobbying Even After Reform Passes