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AMERICAN PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION filed a Q1 report for AMERICAN PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION on April 17, 2025.

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Filing · LD-2 quarterly report Q1 report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2025

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 17, 2025

Expenses

$80,000

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

Client based in

Maryland

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 4

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when. Each name opens every filing that named the same body.

Lobbying activity 4

Defense

Requesting that DOD expand the list of eligible board certification bodies to include entities other than American Board of Medical Specialties; moving doctors of podiatric medicine from the Medical Service Corps to the Medical Corps.

Health Issues

Medicaid access to podiatry and program integrity; Medicare therapeutic shoe program for patients with diabetes; MATE Act implementation; MACRA/MIPS implementation and Physician Fee Schedule proposed updates as pertains to physicians and providers; Seeking financial and regulatory relief for providers; seeking extension of telehealth provisions; supporting legislation to increase awareness of peripheral artery disease; seeking increases in funding for diabetes awareness education; supporting amputation awareness and prevention legislation; supporting mental health legislation; supporting expanded access for providers and telehealth legislation; supporting prescription drug pricing overhaul legislation; supporting student loan relief and overhaul legislation; supporting wound therapy legislation; supporting legislation to stabilize GME funding; supporting opioid treatment legislation.

Veterans

Working with VA on creation and implementation of new national standards of practice for podiatrists; seeking increased funding for continuing medical education grants for providers; participating in national standard of practice project.

Education

Medical student loan assistance; graduate medical education; higher education act reauthorization; student loan reform; student loan forgiveness for providers working in underserved areas.

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