THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

Lobbying for THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

Amended

The filer submitted a later report covering this same period, so the amounts here have been replaced. Site totals count only the latest version. See the current filing, posted May 8, 2026.

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2026

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted May 4, 2026

Expenses

$800,000.00

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

Client based in

Texas

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 4

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
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 4

Government Issues

Issues related to the reorganization of HHS and its underlying agencies: NIH, CDC, CMS, and FDA; impact of executive order on NIH indirect costs and what it means for the institution and the biomedical research space as a whole; the future of ARPA-H; federal grant terminations; the future of global health programs;

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Issues related to clinical trial design and patients obtaining drugs sooner in the course of the trial

Medicare/Medicaid

All legislation related to Medicare site of service payment policy changes; the Cassidy Hassan Senate framework for hospital site neutral payments; Issues related to Medicare reimbursements for cancer services; Any legislation having to do with Medicare payments for dedicated cancer centers and hospitals, including satellite regulations; Medicare Advantage preauthorization; Medicare Advantage access issues; Cuts to services related to cancer diagnosis and treatment; Issues related to increased access to cancer detection. Issues related to "White Bagging" of pharmaceutical products; Policies related to the value of cancer care and initiatives that bend the cost curve; Issue related to site neutral payment reforms being included in the OBBB; Issues related to the FAIR Act and the work of the joint Taskforce developing a new method of cost reimbursement and federal grants.

Budget/Appropriations

Issues related to the President's upcoming federal budget request; Funding levels for federal appropriation bills including Labor-HHS-Education, Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Commerce-Justice-Science that are related to biomedical research funding, healthcare delivery, training and education, protection of intellectual property and research. Funding for NIH and NCI. The impact of executive order on NIH indirect costs and what it means for the institution and the biomedical research space as a whole; the future of ARPA-H; federal grant recisions; Funding included in the CR packages that were passed.

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