MD as FEC employer text: $20.1 million

Two letters, not a state code

FEC individual receipts also store a contributor state field. That state field is not this industry key. MD as an employer/occupation grouping is the literal two letters typed in the employer box (or concatenated into it). LobbyVault’s $20,116,027 total is that text cluster. It is not “all itemized donors who live in Maryland.”

PHYSICIAN, DOCTOR, and ATTY are other abbreviations and titles with their own pages. A donor who wrote PHYSICIAN instead of MD is not in these 1,259 people. LobbyVault does not recode medical titles into a single clinician industry.

1,259 donors and 34,248 lines

1,259 unique donors produced 34,248 MD contribution lines totaling $20,116,027. Repeats are common — on the order of 27 itemized receipts per donor. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a specialty split (cardiology versus family practice). This page does not invent those cuts.

Party and office are not on the industry headline. Follow recipient committees on the donor table. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are outside the $20,116,027.

Hospital and university names are other keys

Donors who typed a hospital, a medical group, or HARVARD UNIVERSITY / STANFORD UNIVERSITY in the employer box sit in those firm or school rows, even if they are physicians. MD captures people who put the abbreviation in the grouped employer text. Mixing hospital names with MD would double-count only if the same receipt appeared in two keys; LobbyVault keeps each grouped string separate.

Occupation pages may still show MD, physician, or a specialty word in the companion field. Those occupation strings are the right place to compare job titles next to this two-letter employer key.

Donor table

The MD donor table lists disclosed names and amounts attached to this string. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a medical-board license, a Medicare billing ID, or a policy preference from the two letters.

Some filers may have meant a company ticker, a set of initials, or Maryland as a mistaken employer entry. The public record stores the text. This page does not audit each of the 1,259 donors for intended meaning.

Readers looking for Maryland geography should use contributor-state views, not this MD industry key. The $20,116,027, 34,248 lines, and 1,259 donors are the two-letter employer/occupation cluster. PHYSICIAN and DOCTOR remain spelled-out clinician rows. Hospital and university employer names remain firm or campus rows. Unitemized gifts never appear. Occupation pages show whether the companion field also says MD, physician, or a specialty word. LobbyVault does not certify licenses from two letters. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS health care and not the state field.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $20,116,027, 34,248 contributions, 1,259 donors, top employer MD. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS and not the contributor-state field.

Compare PHYSICIAN and DOCTOR on the industry index. Use occupation pages for title variants stored beside MD. Unitemized money never appears in the $20,116,027.

Two letters versus PHYSICIAN, DOCTOR, and Maryland

MD’s $20,116,027 from 1,259 donors and 34,248 lines is the employer/occupation abbreviation cluster, not a geographic rollup of Maryland residents. Contributor state is a different FEC field. People who live in Maryland but typed another employer are not in this total. People who typed PHYSICIAN or DOCTOR instead of MD are on those other pages, which already exist as larger clinician-style rows in the industry ranking.

Hospital names, medical groups, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, and STANFORD UNIVERSITY are firm or campus keys. A physician who listed a hospital legal name is in that hospital row, not necessarily in the 1,259. LobbyVault does not recode medical titles and employer names into a single clinician industry. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from the $20,116,027.

The MD donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not certify a medical-board license from two letters. Some filers may have meant initials or another expansion; the public record stores the text. Occupation pages show the companion field. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $20,116,027, 34,248 contributions, 1,259 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS ambulatory care and not the contributor-state field.

Questions

How much have MD-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $20,116,027 to the MD employer string, from 34,248 contributions and 1,259 donors. These are itemized individual receipts whose grouped text is MD, not a Maryland-resident total and not a NAICS health-care sector. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does MD here mean Maryland?

Not as a geographic rollup. The industry key is the employer/occupation string MD. Contributor state is a different FEC field. People who live in Maryland but typed another employer are not in the $20,116,027 unless a receipt also carried this two-letter grouping.

Is this the same as PHYSICIAN or DOCTOR?

No. PHYSICIAN and DOCTOR are separate grouped strings with their own pages. A receipt stamped MD is counted only here. LobbyVault does not merge medical-title spellings into one clinician total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

How many unique donors listed MD?

The rollup counts 1,259 donors and 34,248 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a count of licensed physicians in the United States. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.