Society of Thoracic Surgeons PAC

What The Society of Thoracic Surgeons lobbies on 2026 reports

Besides giving through its PAC, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons pays lobbyists to press Congress and federal agencies. Each quarter it, or a firm it hires, files a public report under the Lobbying Disclosure Act saying which topics it worked on, what it spent, and whom it contacted. This is what those reports say.

Spent on lobbying in 2026

$516.2K

Quarterly reports read

2

Bills it named

24

Topics it lobbied on

Each report files its work under official topics. The bar shows how often each topic came up across the reports; open one to read what was filed under it. Naming a bill says the organization lobbied on it, not which side it took.

• Defensein 2 report entries · 1 bill named

  In its own words

  • H.R.2414- To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a military and civilian partnership for trauma readiness grant program (aka Mission Zero); would reauthorize a military and civilian partnership for trauma readiness grant program.
  • Securing Defense funding for Lung Cancer Research.
  • This quarter $20 million was appropriated for the Lung Cancer Research Program via the DoD's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, which had been eliminated in FY25.
  • Educating members about the need for military readiness of surgeons.

  Read everything filed under Defense

  1 bill named

  • H.R. 2414 ↗

  Offices it contacted

  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • SENATE
• Educationin 2 report entries · 3 bills named

  In its own words

  • Expanding GME opportunities: H.R. 3890- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act; adds 14,000 new residency slots over seven years.
  • Loan Repayment: H.R.2028/ S.942- Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act; would permit a pause on student loan interest accrual and principal loan repayment for the duration of medical residencies and fellowships.

  Read everything filed under Education

  3 bills named

  • H.R. 2028 ↗
  • H.R. 3890 ↗
  • S. 942 ↗

  Offices it contacted

  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • SENATE
• Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplacein 2 report entries · 7 bills named

  In its own words

  • Workforce: S. 266/ H.R. 929- The Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act; would reauthorize a grant program for healthcare organizations and professional associations for employee education on strategies to reduce burnout, peer-support programming, and mental and behavioral health treatment for five years.
  • Communities with a shortage of health care workers, rural communities, and those experiencing burnout due to administrative burdens, such as lengthy paperwork, will be prioritized.
  • This became law this quarter.
  • H.R. 1585/ S.709- The Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act; would modify the Conrad 30 Waiver program, which incentivizes qualified foreign physicians to serve in underserved communities.
  • H.R.3178- The Save Health Care Workers Act; would make it a federal crime to assault or intimidate hospital workers.
  • S. 2031- Workforce Mobility Act; would prohibit certain noncompete agreements.
  • H.R. 7961- H-1Bs for the Physicians and Healthcare Workforce Act; would exempt physicians and health professionals from the $100,000 H-1B filing fee imposed by the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Workforce: H.R. 1585/ S.709- The Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act; would modify the Conrad 30 Waiver program, which incentivizes qualified foreign physicians to serve in underserved communities.

  Read everything filed under Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
• Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labsin 2 report entries · 5 bills named

  In its own words

  • Lung Cancer: H.R.4417/ S. 2927- Mobile Cancer Screening Act; would establish a competitive grant program through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund mobile cancer screening units, grants of up to $2 million would help providers acquire vehicles, imaging equipment, and essential software to reach more patients where they live.
  • H.R. 2319/ S.1157- Women in Lung Cancer Research; would provide additional funding for prevention and treatment of lung cancer in women, particularly non-smokers.
  • H.R.1197- PREEMIE Reauthorization Act; would reauthorize through FY29 epidemiological studies, data tracking, and prevention efforts conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to preterm birth.
  • This quarter this became law.
  • NIH Funding: Requesting that Congress fund NIH for FY27 at at least $51.303 billion; an 8.7% increase over the enacted funding level for FY26.
  • CDC Funding: Requesting full funding for CDC's Firearms Violence Research and the Office of Smoking Health.
  • OMB Uniform Grant Guidance: Submitted comments urging that scientific merit remain the top priority in funding decisions and that safeguards be added to protect ongoing cardiothoracic research from funding disruptions.

  Read everything filed under Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

  5 bills named
• Medicare/Medicaidin 2 report entries · 6 bills named

  In its own words

  • Medicare Physician Payments: H.R. 8163- The Provider Reimbursement Stability Act; would help stabilize Medicare physician payment by raising the budget neutrality trigger from $20 million to $54 million, tying reimbursement to the Medicare Economic Index, and capping annual reductions at 2.5%.
  • The legislation would also require CMS to use real utilization data and allow later adjustments for new or revised codes.
  • H.R. 7520- Efficiency Adjustment Delay Act; the CY 2026 MPFS introduced a 2.5% reduction in work Relative Value Units (RVUs) for non-time-based procedures with additional reductions scheduled every three years.
  • The Efficiency Adjustment Delay Act would delay the implementation of the policy until 2030 and require CMS to provide a justification and improved implementation report to Congress.
  • Educating members on the need for updates to the physician fee schedule with an annual update based on a portion of the growth in the Medicare Economic Index (MEI).
  • Educating members about the harm caused by CMS reducing the indirect practice expense (PE) allocated per work RVU allocated to facility services to 50% of the amount allocated for non-facility (office-based) services.
  • Medicaid Cuts: Urging Congress to preserve Medicaids vital role in the healthcare system and explore solutions that maintain access to high-quality care, particularly for underserved communities.

  Read everything filed under Medicare/Medicaid
• Health Issuesin 1 report entry · 2 bills named

  In its own words

  • Telehealth: H.R. 4204/ S. 1261- CONNECT for Health Act; would permanently remove all geographic restrictions on telehealth services and expand originating sites to the location of the patient, including homes, among other provisions.
  • This quarter a 2 year extension for telehealth flexibilities was signed into law.

  Read everything filed under Health Issues

  2 bills named

  • H.R. 4204 ↗
  • S. 1261 ↗

  Offices it contacted

  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • SENATE

Who did the lobbying

The organization’s own reports give its total lobbying costs, including any firms it hired; each firm reports what this client paid it.

• The Society of Thoracic SurgeonsIts own staff · 2 reports$516.2K

Matched by name: these reports are filed for “THE SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS”, found by searching “SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS”. Lobbying and FEC records share no ID, so an organization that lobbies under another name is missed. Source: LDA.gov, accessed Oct 27, 2026. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.