To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

1. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - AAGP urges Congress to replace the current Medicare strategic growth rate (SGR) formula with one that more accurately reflects the volume and intensity of services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and to take action to avert future cuts in Medicare payments to physicians and other health care providers; to implement a five-year period of stableMedicare physician payments; and transition to an array of new payment models designed to enhance care coordination, quality, appropriatess and cost. 2. Oppose any cuts in Medicare or Medicaid programs that would adversely impact children and adults with behavioral health disorders. 3. Support the "Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act" (H.R. 1838/S. 755) to amend Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology. 4. Support the "Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act" (S.709 / H.R.1307) to combine the existing Medicare benefits for diagnosis and care planning for individuals with Alzheimer's disease into a single package of services. 5. Support elimination of the Medicare 190-day lifetime limit for psychiatric hospital care. 6. Support bonus payments under Medicare to clinicians in geriatric specialties. 7. Support H.R. 2810 to provide a multi-year transition from the current Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula to a new value-based program. 8. Oppose H.R. 4302, the "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014" to postpone the 24 percent in Medicare physician payments for 12 monthw (which was being considered in lieu of a permanent solution to the SGR problem). 9. Support H.R.4015/S.2000, the "SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014" to repeal Medicare's SGR formula and establish a transition to a stable Medicare payment policy.

Client expense: $5,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Financial surety obligations for hard rock mining. H.R. 1307-Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee); S.366 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee);

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $18,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

1. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - AAGP urges Congress to replace the current Medicare strategic growth rate (SGR) formula with one that more accurately reflects the volume and intensity of services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and to take action to avert future cuts in Medicare payments to physicians and other health care providers; to implement a five-year period of stableMedicare physician payments; and transition to an array of new payment models designed to enhance care coordination, quality, appropriatess and cost. 2. Oppose any cuts in Medicare or Medicaid programs that would adversely impact children and adults with behavioral health disorders. 3. Support the "Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act" (H.R. 1838/S. 755) to amend Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology. 4. Support the "Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act" (S.709 / H.R.1307) to combine the existing Medicare benefits for diagnosis and care planning for individuals with Alzheimer's disease into a single package of services. 5. Support elimination of the Medicare 190-day lifetime limit for psychiatric hospital care. 6. Support bonus payments under Medicare to clinicians in geriatric specialties. 7. Support H.R. 2810 to provide a multi-year transition from the current Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula to a new value-based program. 8. Oppose H.R. 4302, the "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014" to postpone the 24 percent in Medicare physician payments for 12 monthw (which was being considered in lieu of a permanent solution to the SGR problem). 9. Support H.R.4015/S.2000, the "SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014" to repeal Medicare's SGR formula and establish a transition to a stable Medicare payment policy.

Financial surety obligations for hard rock mining. H.R. 1307-Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee); S.366 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee);

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

1. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - AAGP urges Congress to replace the current Medicare strategic growth rate (SGR) formula with one that more accurately reflects the volume and intensity of services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and to take action to avert future cuts in Medicare payments to physicians and other health care providers; to implement a five-year period of stableMedicare physician payments; and transition to an array of new payment models designed to enhance care coordination, quality, appropriatess and cost. 2. Oppose any cuts in Medicare or Medicaid programs that would adversely impact children and adults with behavioral health disorders. 3. Support the "Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act" (H.R. 1838/S. 755) to amend Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology. 4. Support the "Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act" (S.709 / H.R.1307) to combine the existing Medicare benefits for diagnosis and care planning for individuals with Alzheimer's disease into a single package of services. 5. Support elimination of the Medicare 190-day lifetime limit for psychiatric hospital care. 6. Support bonus payments under Medicare to clinicians in geriatric specialties. 7. Support H.R. 2810/Senate draft the "Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act" to provide a multi-year transition from the current Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula to a new value-based program.

Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 1307-Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee); S.366 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

1. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - AAGP urges Congress to replace the current Medicare reimbursement formula with one that more accurately reflects the volume and intensity of services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and to take action to avert future cuts in Medicare payments to physicians and other health care providers.2. Oppose any cuts in Medicare or Medicaid programs that would adversely impact children and adults with behavioral health disorders. 3. Support the "Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act" (H.R. 1838/S. 755) to amend Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology. 4. Support the "Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act" (S.709 / H.R.1307) to combine the existing Medicare benefits for diagnosis and care planning for individuals with Alzheimer's disease into a single package of services. 5. Support elimination of the Medicare 190-day lifetime limit for psychiatric hospital care. 6. Support bonus payments under Medicare to clinicians in geriatric specialties.

Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 1307-Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee); S.366 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2013 (Small Miner Claim Fee).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE