HCA

Based in TN

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AI Overview

With $3.9M in lobbying spend across 34 quarterly filings, HCA is a significant lobbying presence. They deploy 12 individual lobbyists Their lobbying covers 9 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$3.9M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$520K
2019	$770K
2020	$520K
2021	$650K
2022	$400K
2023	$320K
2024	$320K
2025	$360K

Issues Lobbied

Insurance Health Issues Medicare/Medicaid Taxation Budget/Appropriations Communications Labor Issues Education Consumer Issues

Lobbying Firms

The Smith-free Group, LLC

Lobbyists

James Free W. Locke Jack Deuser Summer Mersinger Robert Hickmott Trevor Kolego Chris Scribner Michael Gaffin Sarah Merchak John Christie Jeffrey Becker Mike Mullen

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: Insurance, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation, Budget/Appropriations and 4 more

•Monitored implementation of the Affordable Care Act

•HR 1156 Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2017 (all sections of full text)
•S 1133 Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2017 (all sections of full text)
•HR 277 America

•Discussions pertaining to budget sequestration limits on Medicare spending
•Discussions involving nominations to federally authorized commissions
•Discussions pertinent to the proposed reduction in th

•Monitored implementation of PL 115-97 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

•Discussions related to federal natural disaster assistance for hospitals and The Stafford Act
•Monitored discussions pertaining to the President's FY2019 HHS Budget