The Advanced Medical Technology Association, or AdvaMed, the lobbying group for the medical device industry, spent about $366,000 in lobbying in the second quarter of 2011, according to an Associated Press report.
Among the issues AdvaMed lobbied on were accountable care organizations, regulation of implantable devices, FDA approval and regulation of medical devices, and patents and trademarks.
AdvaMed reduced its spending by about 3 percent from the second quarter of 2010, when it spent about $379,000 on lobbying.
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