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Lobbyist disclosure reporting period: 01/01/2023 - 06/30/2023

Lobbyist name	Elizabeth Ann Leahy
Business name	Massachusetts Association of Health Plans
Address	20 Ashburton Place 3rd Floor
City, state, zip code	Boston, MA 02108
Country	US
Agent type	Both
Phone	617-338-2244

Operating Expenses

No operating expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Activities, Bill Numbers and Titles

Client: Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, Inc

Total amount paid by client; lobbyist is unable to report compensation at activity level: $48,376.57

House / Senate	Bill Number or Agency Name	Bill title or activity	Agent position	Amount	Direct business association
House Bill	986	An Act relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1073	An Act relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1184	An Act relative to health equity and community health workers	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2194	An Act authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	605	An Act empowering health care consumers	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	659	An Act relative to removing barriers to non-opioid pain management	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	777	An Act relative to hospital billing and licensure	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on COVID-19 Flexibility and the end of the Public Health Emergency	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)	Discussions with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services regarding Mifepristone Coverage	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	988	An Act relative to patient financial protection	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1074	An Act relative to cancer patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1185	An Act strengthening market oversight of the Commonwealth's Health Care System	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2204	An Act relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	609	An Act relative to consumer deductibles	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	662	An Act providing access to full spectrum addiction treatment services	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	783	An Act to promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Implementation of Step Therapy Law	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)	Discussions with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services regarding Mifepristone Coverage	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1	An Act making appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	990	An Act relative to removing barriers to non-opioid pain management	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1125	An Act to increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1201	An Act to promote transparency in prescription drug prices	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2269	An Act to establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	612	An Act relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	665	An Act relative to specialty medications and patient safety	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	784	An Act relative to coverage for chronic illness	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA)	Discussions with the Center for Health Information and Analysis on Data Collection and Analysis	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Office of the Governor	Discussions with the Office of the Governor on Mifepristone Coverage	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	646	An Act to ensure senior care organization quality and accountability	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	993	An Act to strengthen the control of contagious and infectious diseases in the Commonwealth	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1135	An Act to help patients and reduce health care costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1212	An Act relative to determination of need of new technology	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2963	An Act relative to payments in lieu of taxation by organizations exempt from the property tax	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	618	An Act relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	671	An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1064	An Act removing the charitable immunity cap	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)	Discussions with Health Policy Commission on Administrative Simplification	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Attorney General's Office (AGO)	Discussions with the Attorney General's Office regarding ambulance coverage and reimbursement	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	643	An Act to ensure senior care organization quality and accountability	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	991	An Act relative to reimbursement for recovery peer specialists	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1131	An Act relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1205	An Act relative to prescription drug price transparency	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2563	An Act relative to the Group Insurance Commission and Medicare migration	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	616	An Act relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	670	An Act to help patients and reduce healthcare costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	789	An Act relative to hospital price transparency	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)	Discussions with Health Policy Commission on Annual Cost Trends Report and Hearing	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Office of the Governor	Discussions with the Office of the Governor on Implementation of Amendments to Small Group Regulations	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	934	An Act to enact the pharmacy benefit manager compensation reform	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	997	An Act to protect health care consumers from surprise billing	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1141	An Act relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1219	An Act enhancing the market review process	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	3617	An Act relative to the joint negotiation prohibition for integrated systems	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	630	An Act ensuring access to specialty medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	689	An Act relative to patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1369	An Act to establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)	Discussions with Health Policy Commission on No Surprises Act Implementation	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	733	An Act relative to emergency response and preparedness in the event of a surge in pediatric or adult hospitalizations	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	994	An Act to increase access and transparency of health insurance data	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1137	An Act ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1215	An Act relative to pharmacy benefit managers	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	3587	An Act to ensure access to prescription medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	625	An Act relative to out-of-pocket expenses for covid-19 therapeutics	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	677	An Act relative to prescription-drug utilization review	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1334	An Act relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)	Discussions with Health Policy Commission Office of Patient Protection on Proposed Changes to Mental Health Regulations – 958 Code of Massachusetts Regulations 3.00	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Attorney General's Office (AGO)	Discussions with the Attorney General's Office regarding coverage of human immunodeficiency virus pre-exposure prophylaxis	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	941	An Act relative to utilization review	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1019	An Act ensuring pharmacy access	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1147	An Act ensuring access to specialty medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1238	An Act to improve patient care through integrated electronic health records	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	3	An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	633	An Act providing for a medical exemption for manufacturer coupons	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	715	An Act to ensure access to prescription medications	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1435	An Act authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	MassHealth	Discussions with MassHealth regarding the Senior Care Options program	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	982	An Act relative to non-medical switching	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1042	An Act relative to parity of treatment with substance abuse	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1176	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2163	An Act relative to postpartum depression screenings	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	601	An Act prohibiting self-dealing by pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies under common ownership	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	657	An Act providing continuity of care for mental health treatment	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	749	An Act relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Dental Ballot Question Implementation	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services regarding COVID-19	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	953	An Act relative to consumer deductibles	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1030	An Act relative to human donor milk coverage	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1160	An Act relative to direct primary care	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1247	An Act relative to pharmacy benefit managers reimbursements to pharmacies in the Commonwealth	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	594	An Act addressing duplicative notifications of UR approvals (administrative simplification)	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	647	An Act relative to preserving preventive services without cost sharing	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	732	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Behavioral Health Wellness Exams	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	MassHealth	Discussions with MassHealth regarding implementation of the step therapy law	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	943	An Act to reduce co-pays for people with chronic conditions	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1001	An Act relative to step therapy and in vitro fertilization insurance coverage	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1148	An Act relative to prescription drug pricing	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1243	An Act to ensure access to the full range of treatment options for people with obesity	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	369	An Act to ensure senior care organization quality and accountability	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	645	An Act relative to out-of-network billing	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	718	An Act relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1836	An Act relative to payments in lieu of taxation by organizations exempt from the property tax	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	MassHealth	Discussions with MassHealth regarding the One Care program	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	978	An Act relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1037	An Act relative to trans-inclusive health care access	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1165	An Act making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1524	An Act to eliminate the charitable immunity cap	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	595	An Act to strengthen the control of contagious and infectious diseases in the Commonwealth	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	655	An Act relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	736	An Act relative to the closing of hospital essential services	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Psychiatric Collaborative Care	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Department of Public Health (DPH)	Discussions with Department of Public Health regarding COVID-19 vaccine purchasing	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	937	An Act relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	999	An Act empowering health care consumers	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1144	An Act relative to specialty medications and patient safety	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1223	An Act to ensure access and continuity of care to specialist and hospital services for dual eligibles	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	3757	An Act relative to prescription medication re-authorization	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	631	An Act relative to access to care for serious mental illness	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	696	An Act relative to human donor milk coverage	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	1375	An Act relative to postpartum depression screening	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)	Discussions with Health Policy Commission on Report on Behavioral Health Managers	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	984	An Act relative to access to care for serious mental illness	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1068	An Act to further define medical necessity determinations	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1182	An Act relative to the treatment of epilepsy and seizure disorders	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	2184	An Act authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	602	An Act relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	658	An Act relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	761	An Act relative to hospital closures and health planning	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Final Bulletins related to Chapter 127 of the Acts of 2022	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with the Executive Office of Elder Affairs regarding Place Based Services and Supports	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	979	An Act relative to transparency of hospital margins & ensuring hospital efficiency	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1040	An Act for health care non-discrimination	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1175	An Act relative to the closing of hospital essential services	Support	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1963	An Act to promote high value and evidence-based behavioral health care	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	596	An Act relative to trans-inclusive health care access	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	656	An Act to reduce the cost of pharmacy benefits	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	742	An Act to ensure access and continuity of care to specialist and hospital services for dually eligible individuals	Support	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on Enforcement of the Federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and Machine Readable Files Requirements	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)	Discussions with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services regarding COVID-19 vaccine purchasing	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	945	An Act to ensure prescription drug cost transparency and affordability	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1007	An Act relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1150	An Act to ensure access to generic medication	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
House Bill	1246	An Act relative to drug prices paid by carriers	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	382	An Act relative to complex care needs for seniors in SCO programs	Support	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	646	An Act ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Senate Bill	725	An Act regarding shared responsibility for health care oversight agencies	Oppose	$0.00	N/A
Executive	Division of Insurance (Executive Office of Health and Human Services)	Discussions with Division of Insurance on on Implementation of Amendments to Small Group Regulations	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
Executive	MassHealth	Discussions with MassHealth regarding redeterminations	Neutral	$0.00	N/A
			Total amount	$0.00

Meals, Travel, and Entertainment Expenses

No meals, travel, or entertainment expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Additional Expenses

No additional expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Campaign Contributions

Date	Recipient name	Office sought	Amount
02/13/2023	Michael Rodrigues	Senator First Bristol and Plymouth	$150.00
03/24/2023	Kate Hogan	Representative Third Middlesex	$125.00
04/07/2023	Karen Spilka	Senate President Second Middlesex and Norfolk	$200.00
04/11/2023	Healey-Driscoll	Governor / Lieutenant Governor Massachusetts	$200.00
05/19/2023	Christine Barber	Representative 34th Middlesex	$200.00
		Total contributions	$875.00

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