Here is what eight companies spent on lobbying efforts for health IT last quarter, listed from most to least.
1. Google dished out $4.42 million on lobbying efforts for health data policy and opioid crisis response.
2. IBM‘s fourth quarter filing designated $1.75 million for health IT and other issues.
3. Apple spent $1.61 million to address issues such as regulating mobile medical applications and privacy.
4. athenahealth spent $190,000, with a chunk of the funds on behalf of topics related to ONC’s role “in the marketplace pertaining to programs that impede private sector innovation.”
5. Cerner paid one lobby $50,000 for health IT issues and another $70,000 for “Department of Veterans Affairs health information technology issues.”
6. Epic, which enlists lobbyist Bradford Card, spent about $40,000 in the fourth quarter of 2017.
7. Monument Policy Group filed a termination report for Claim Your Health Data Coalition, which spent nearly $30,000 on lobbying related to “healthcare, IT and medical records,” according to the filing reviewed by Politico.
8. Leidos paid lobbyists $10,000 to address EMR issues.
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