THE ERISA INDUSTRY COMMITTEE lobbying for ERISA INDUSTRY COMMITTEE

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2025

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 17, 2025

Expenses

$110,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using C: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

MELISSA BARTLETT New on this filing

Previously held: Privacy Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce
ANDREW BANDUCCI

Previously held: Professional Staff Member and Workforce Policy Counsel, House Comm. on Education and the Workforce;Labor and Pensions Policy Director, Sen. HELP Comm.;Chief Policy Officer, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp;Pensions Detailee, Sen. Finance Comm.

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 18

Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
Natl Economic Council (NEC)
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
SENATE
Treasury, Dept of
White House Office

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

Lobbying activity 3

Health Issues

Affordable Care Act, all provisions and related regulations, including employer mandate, wellness issues, out-of-pocket (OOP) limits, and nondiscrimination PCORI & comparative effectiveness, coverage mandates on ERISA plans, access to preventive care items and services ADA and GINA, HIPAA compliance, privacy and security of health information, access to claims data, and all payers claims databases Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence Coverage of and access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment Tax treatment of employer-sponsored benefits and insurance Patent reforms, prescription drug costs, rebates, generics, and biosimilars, Rx supply chain, medical management, value-driven care in public and private coverage, patient safety and quality Medicare Advantage, Medicare secondary payer, end stage renal disease (ESRD), and retiree health, COBRA, Medicare expansion and public option Health savings accounts and high-deductible health plan modernization ERISA preemption, plan administration, electronic delivery Transparency and accountability in the health care system, vertical integration impacts on health care Caregiving, surprise medical billing, hospital billing, consolidation, anti-competitive practices Telehealth expansion, interstate provider licensing

Retirement

Paid leave issues Emergency savings Single-employer defined benefit issues Retirement plan disclosures Retirement plan investment requirements, options, duties, and related issues Retirement plan contribution flexibility Modernizing retirement plan administration Retirement plan recordkeeping issues PBGC premiums SECURE 2.0 Act implementation Multiemployer pensions Litigation and enforcement affecting benefit plans Retirement plan coverage Retirement incentives

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Tax treatment of employer-sponsored health benefits Modernizing high-deductible health plans (HDHPs)/health savings accounts(HSAs) Treatment of 1st-dollar coverage of HDHP/HSA telehealth services, excepted benefits for stand-along telehealth plans Retirement-related tax issues