Why It Matters
The American Psychiatric Association added two lobbyists to its third-quarter 2026 in-house disclosure compared with the second quarter, bringing its team to eight, as it lobbied on the fiscal year 2027 (FY2027) Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill, physician J-1 visas, and Medicaid managed care state-directed payments and Medicaid fee-for-service targeted Medicaid practitioner payments. The filing also names the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (REDI Act), which would let medical and dental residents defer student loan payments until their programs end, and the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act, which would extend funding for health care workers' mental health education initiatives and expand related grant programs.
By the Numbers
The in-house third-quarter 2026 report lists $144,050 in lobbying expenditures. That is up $6,659 from the second quarter of 2026. Capitol Counsel LLC filed a separate third-quarter 2026 report for the association at $50,000, unchanged from prior quarters. The combined third-quarter 2026 total across both registrants is $194,050.
The in-house filing lists eight lobbyists: Abby Griffin, manager of federal relations; Trip Stanford III, federal relations director; Mike Troubh, director of federal relations; Brooke Trainum, senior director of practice policy; Maureen Maguire, associate director; Dana Doran, associate director; Benjamin Eichberg; and Becky Yowell, director of reimbursement policy and quality. Doran and Eichberg were not on the second-quarter 2026 in-house filing; Doran returns after a one-quarter absence, while Eichberg is a new addition in the available filing history.
Broader Context
The House Appropriations Committee approved its FY2027 Labor-HHS-Education bill in June 2026; no Senate action or enactment is established in the available records.
The Senate version, S. 942, was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and remained in committee as of the filing date.
H.R. 929 and S. 266 are the House and Senate bills behind the Dr. Lorna Breen reauthorization; its enactment status could not be confirmed from the available records.
The filing lists a letter to HHS regarding Medicaid managed-care state-directed payments and Medicaid fee-for-service targeted practitioner payments.
The filing names H.R. 1107, the Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act, which Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) sponsored. The available records do not establish the bill's current status.
Competitive Landscape
Other organizations lobbying H.R. 929 include the Emergency Nurses Association, the American Hospital Association, FIGS Inc., the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the Society for Vascular Surgery.
Other organizations lobbying S. 942 include the American Dental Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Cardiology, the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the American Medical Association.
The Bottom Line
The association's in-house filings fell from $391,974 in the fourth quarter of 2025 to $137,391 in the second quarter of 2026, then rose to $144,050 in the third quarter, when its in-house lobbyist roster grew from six names to eight with the addition of Dana Doran and Benjamin Eichberg. The REDI Act (S. 942) remains in committee; the FY2027 Labor-HHS-Education bill passed the House Appropriations Committee but is not established as enacted, and appropriations bills that are not enacted lapse at the end of the congressional session.
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