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AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD

Lobbying for CHRISTUS HEALTH SYSTEM · Catholic health system health care provider

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 21, 2025

Income

$110,000.00

What the client paid this registrant for the period.

Client based in

Texas

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

KANDIS MCCLURE New on this filing

Previously held: Intern for Sen. Harry Reid, Jan. - Apr. 2013

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 3

Budget/Appropriations

Children's Hospital GME funding; Implementation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328); Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations.

Health Issues

Issues related to Medicaid, hospital reimbursement, Children's Hospital GME, Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, and site-neutral payment, rural health, including Low-Volume Hospital and Medicare Dependent Hospital programs; Issues related to telehealth; Issues related to health care workforce.

Medicare/Medicaid

Issues related to rural health, including Low-Volume Hospital and Medicare Dependent Hospital programs, hospital reimbursement, including sequestration, prescription drug pricing, Surprise billing, telehealth, 1115 Medicaid Waiver, health care workforce, maternal health, and freestanding ERs.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.