US Physician Partners (Informal Coalition)

Informal coalition of physician providers related to surprise emergency medical bills.

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $2.1M in lobbying spend across 27 quarterly filings, US Physician Partners (Informal Coalition) is a significant lobbying presence. Their lobbying covers 2 issue areas. Active from 2019 to 2025.

$2.1M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2019	$380K
2020	$240K
2021	$230K
2022	$240K
2023	$350K
2024	$270K
2025	$370K

Issues Lobbied

Health Issues Medicare/Medicaid

Lobbying Firms

Sims Strategies, LLC

Lobbyists

Michaela Sims Edward Prettyman

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: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Surprise emergency medical bills

Issues related to surprise emergency medical bills.

Issues related to surprise emergency medical bills, including provisions in: S. 1531, the Stopping The Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act; S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act; House Energy and Commerce Committee's discussion draft of the No Surprises Act; H.R. 3502, the Protecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act.

Issues related to COVID-19 impacts and response, including provisions in H.R. 748, the CARES Act.

Issues related to surprise emergency medical bills, including provisions in: S. 1531, the Stopping The Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act; S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act; H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act; H.R. 2328, the Reauthorizing and Extending Americas Community Health Act; H.R. 3502, the Protecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act. Issues related to the proposed Conversion Factor reduction resulting from policy changes in Evaluation and Management codes in CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (85 FR 50074).

Issues related to surprise emergency medical bills, including provisions in: S. 1531, the Stopping The Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act; S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act; H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act; H.R. 2328, the Reauthorizing and Extending Americas Community Health Act; H.R. 3502, the Protecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act; P.L. 116-260, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. Issues related to the proposed Conversion Factor reduction resulting from policy changes in Evaluation and Management codes in CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (85 FR 50074) and CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (85 FR 84472).

Issues related to the extension of the moratorium on Medicare sequestration, including H.R. 1868, an act to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes, and S. 748, the Medicare Sequester Relief Act.

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