SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. lobbying for SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$350,000.00

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

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

PAUL SELTMAN

Previously held: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation,HHS; Counsel, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, House Budget Committee; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Major R. Owens; Associate Counsel, House Education and Labor Committee.
JOHN E. MARTIN JR

Previously held: Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Roe; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Rick Santorum; Staff Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

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 3

Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

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

Bills named in this filing 4

HR 1931
Access to Pediatric Technologies Act of 2025
S 249
Access to Pediatric Technologies Act of 2025
S 2561
Skin Substitute Access and Payment Reform Act of 2025
HR 1
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.

Lobbying activity 5

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Issues related to tariffs.

Defense

Educate key government stakeholders on Smith+Nephew products applicable to the military and seek support for appropriations requests.

Medicare/Medicaid

Medicare physician fee schedule, Medicare hospital outpatient rule, and Medicare Administrative Contractor policies, issues related to skin substitutes. Medicare physician fee schedule and Medicare Administrative Contractor policies, issues related to pediatric tympanostomies. H.R. 1931 / S.249, Access to Pediatric Technologies Act of 2025. S. 2561, Skin Substitute Access and Payment Reform Act of 2025.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Issues related to the base erosion and anti-abuse tax. Section 899 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R.1.

Environment/Superfund

Issues related to medical device sterilization and the use of ethylene oxide for sterilization under EPAs proposed regulations for the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.