MEDICAL DOCTOR as FEC employer text: $7.6 million

Two words that are not a hospital name

FEC employer fields accept free text. Some clinicians type a health system. Others type MEDICAL DOCTOR. LobbyVault groups the latter as an industry key. The $7,554,460 total is those itemized gifts. It is not Kaiser Permanente’s payroll, not a medical-school faculty export, and not every person who holds an M.D.

Donors who typed MD, M.D., DOCTOR, PHYSICIAN, Self/Physician, or a hospital legal name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not spell-check those variants into one clinician bucket.

Spelling is the whole difference between this page and MD. Filers who abbreviated the credential never enter the MEDICAL DOCTOR rollup on those abbreviated receipts. LobbyVault does not expand abbreviations.

1,377 donors across 23,002 lines

1,377 unique donors produced 23,002 MEDICAL DOCTOR contribution lines totaling $7,554,460. That is on the order of 17 itemized receipts per donor — lower line density than some payroll-heavy employer names in this batch, higher donor count than many partnership rows. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a specialty split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any medical-association committee filings are outside the $7,554,460 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

The 1,377 unique donors can include people who also appear under a hospital name on other receipts. Those other receipts are not in the $7,554,460. Only lines grouped to MEDICAL DOCTOR are.

MD, physician, and self-employed clinician rows

MD, DOCTOR, PHYSICIAN, and Self/Physician are separate employer-name keys. A receipt that says MEDICAL DOCTOR is counted here; a receipt that says MD is not. Combining them would overstate clinician giving as a single FEC field. This page stays at $7,554,460 for MEDICAL DOCTOR.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside whatever employer was typed — a clinic, a university, or this title string. DENTIST and PHARMACIST remain other keys when those words were placed in the employer box.

Donor table

The MEDICAL DOCTOR donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a procedure, a malpractice filing, or a motive to that line. Retired clinicians who still type MEDICAL DOCTOR share the string with people currently licensed. The FEC field is not a state medical-board roster.

Repeat names are expected among 23,002 lines from 1,377 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the title string.

A receipt in the MEDICAL DOCTOR table is a public individual contribution whose employer text grouped here. It is not a hospital credentialing file. People who appear under KAISER PERMANENTE or UCLA on other lines are counted here only when a receipt also grouped to MEDICAL DOCTOR. Follow committees on the table for party and office rather than reading a partisan percentage into the $7,554,460 headline.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,554,460, 23,002 contributions, 1,377 donors, top employer MEDICAL DOCTOR. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare MD, PHYSICIAN, and Self/Physician on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to a named hospital or this string.

Clinician giving is split across many FEC keys

MEDICAL DOCTOR is one of several clinician strings. MD, DOCTOR, PHYSICIAN, and Self/Physician each have their own donor counts. Adding those keys to the $7,554,460 total would double-count people who used more than one spelling across cycles and would still miss hospital-system names such as KAISER PERMANENTE.

The 23,002 contribution lines from 1,377 donors are itemized federal individual receipts. Specialty, board certification, and employment status are not FEC fields on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts and medical-association PAC filings are omitted unless an individual receipt carries MEDICAL DOCTOR.

Read the donor table for disclosed recipients. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to clinicians. Occupation pages show titles stored beside a clinic or beside this spelled-out string. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS physician-office total.

Keep MEDICAL DOCTOR’s $7,554,460, 23,002 contributions, and 1,377 donors on this spelled-out title. MD, PHYSICIAN, DOCTOR, and Self/Physician stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside a clinic or this string. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS physician-office total.

Questions

How much have MEDICAL DOCTOR-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,554,460 to the MEDICAL DOCTOR employer string, from 23,002 contributions and 1,377 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a hospital PAC and not a NAICS physician-office total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this the same as MD or PHYSICIAN on FEC forms?

No. MD, DOCTOR, PHYSICIAN, and Self/Physician are separate grouped strings. The $7,554,460 total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to MEDICAL DOCTOR. LobbyVault does not merge abbreviations into this row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include hospital-system employees who typed Kaiser or UCLA?

No. Named employers such as KAISER PERMANENTE and UCLA are separate keys. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text MEDICAL DOCTOR. Clinicians who listed a campus or health system are in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed MEDICAL DOCTOR?

The rollup counts 1,377 donors and 23,002 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a census of licensed physicians. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.