SURGEON money in federal elections

A clinical title on the employer field

FEC forms store SURGEON when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply NAICS 622 or 621. The $5,485,696 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped text matches the title. It is not surgical-case volume, not a state medical-board licensee file, and not every clinician who typed a hospital, health-system, or group-practice name instead.

People who typed ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, NEUROSURGEON, PHYSICIAN, MD, or SELF-EMPLOYED sit in other rows if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into SURGEON. The FEC field is not an American College of Surgeons roster. Occupation pages show related titles stored beside this word.

797 donors and 13,524 lines

797 unique donors produced 13,524 SURGEON contribution lines totaling $5,485,696. That is on the order of 17 itemized receipts per donor. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among hospital-employed, academic, and private-practice surgeons.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and association PAC filings are outside the $5,485,696 unless an individual receipt itself carries this title string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Physician, MD, and hospital siblings

PHYSICIAN, MD, and hospital legal names are separate keys. Combining them with SURGEON would mix a specialty word, a credential, and facility names. This page stays at $5,485,696 for SURGEON only.

Occupation breakdowns list titles next to SURGEON. Some donors pair the word with a hospital; those pairs are stored as typed and are not merged here unless the grouped key is SURGEON. State filings are omitted from the $5,485,696.

Donor table

The SURGEON donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a board certification, a hospital privilege, or a motive from the title word. The 797 unique-person count is not a census of U.S. surgeons.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the clinical title. Repeat names among 13,524 lines from 797 people are expected. People who typed PHYSICIAN or a health-system name are not in these 797 unless a receipt also grouped to SURGEON.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,485,696, 13,524 contributions, 797 donors, top employer SURGEON. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this word.

Keep SURGEON’s $5,485,696, 13,524 contributions, and 797 donors on this clinical title. PHYSICIAN, MD, hospital names, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS hospital total.

Itemized federal individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized gifts and committee PAC documents stay outside this industry row. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored next to the employer string. The industry index ranks sibling keys without merging them into this total.

Clinical-title dollars versus hospital PAC filings

SURGEON is a one-word clinical title, so the $5,485,696 is not a hospital system total and not a medical-association PAC sum. PHYSICIAN, MD, and facility legal names remain other keys. Unitemized gifts stay outside the 13,524 lines from 797 donors.

About 17 receipts per person is a moderate repeat pattern. The packet does not split hospital-employed, academic, and private-practice surgeons and does not certify board status. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside SURGEON, including pairs that were typed with a hospital name.

Use the donor table to inspect disclosed committees. Use the industry index to compare other clinical strings without merging them. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to SURGEON. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS.

Keep SURGEON’s 797 donors and 13,524 lines on the one-word clinical title. PHYSICIAN, MD, and hospital names remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,485,696 only.

Questions

How much have SURGEON-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,485,696 to the SURGEON employer string, from 13,524 contributions and 797 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a medical-association PAC and not a NAICS hospital 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 a hospital or health-system total?

No. SURGEON is a self-reported job word stored in the employer grouping. The $5,485,696 total is individual contributions whose text grouped to that word. Hospital legal names and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include people who wrote physician or MD?

Only if the grouped employer text is SURGEON. PHYSICIAN and MD are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the one-word clinical title. Specialty prefixes such as ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON sit in other rows if stored separately. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed SURGEON?

The rollup counts 797 donors and 13,524 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a medical-board headcount. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.