Highmark Inc

Parent Organization: Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Highmark is a not for profit health insurance company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania, and through a purchase in 1996, the largest health insurer in West Virginia. As Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, it primarily serves the 29 counties of western Pennsylvania. As Highmark Blue Shield is services all of Pennsylvania. There is also a presence in the border areas of eastern Ohio, and all of West Virginia through its subsidiary Mountain State Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Recently purchased a 40% stake in the largest health insurer in northeastern Pennsylvania as well, Blue Cross of North East Pennsylvania BCNEPA. It is currently one of the largest not-for-profit health insurers in the United States which owns several for-profit subsidiaries.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$234,834 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

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covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Highmark Inc Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$3,025,137 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Highmark Inc

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Highmark Inc $3,025,137
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Health Issues,
    • Medicare & Medicaid,
    • Taxes,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Pharmacy
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1206 Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2011
    H.R.371 Health Care Choice Act of 2011
    H.R.2184
    H.R.3162 Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007
    S.1848 Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2007
    H.R.1213 To repeal mandatory funding provided to States in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish American Health Benefit Exchanges.
    H.R.3801 Trade Adjustment Assistance Improvement Act
    H.R.4757 Health Insurance Rate Authority Act of 2010
    H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
    S.3078 Health Insurance Rate Authority Act of 2010
View all lobbying data for Highmark Inc Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 15 dockets; Submitted to 3 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Highmark Inc" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.