American Massage Therapy Association
National association
Based in IL
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AI Overview
With $190K in lobbying spend across 33 quarterly filings, American Massage Therapy Association is an active lobbying client. Their lobbying covers 3 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.
$190K
Total Spend
8
Years Active
1
Firms Hired
1
Lobbyists Deployed
3
Issues Lobbied
Spending Trend
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| Year | Lobbying Spend |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $5K |
| 2019 | $20K |
| 2020 | $20K |
| 2021 | $30K |
| 2022 | $10K |
| 2023 | $25K |
| 2024 | $40K |
| 2025 | $40K |
Issues Lobbied
Lobbying Firms
Lobbyists
What They Lobby About
These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: MED, Accounting, Health Issues
- •Education to increase awareness of the value of massage therapy as an integrative component of medicine and the need to increase research on massage therapy, particularly for pain management.
- •Access to care for services to address pain issues; implementation issues surrounding the HHS Pain Task Force.
- •Legislation and regulations to ensure access to care for certain complementary and integrative therapies, as recommended by the HHS Pain Task Force, and to enact legislation addressing coverage of sam
- •Annual appropriations bills to support access to massage therapy and integrative health services to address pain issues.
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Data Sources: Senate LDA Filings
Last updated: February 2026
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