ANESTHESIOLOGIST

A job title sitting in the industry index

FEC individual records have two free-text fields: employer and occupation. LobbyVault’s industry rollup groups whichever string the ingest treated as the industry key. Here that key is ANESTHESIOLOGIST, and the top employer fact is the same word—meaning many filers put the specialty in the employer box, left employer blank, or used the title as both. The $4,838,664 therefore follows a specialty label, not a hospital name.

Hospital and group-practice employer strings (a clinic name, a university medical center) live on other industry pages. An anesthesiologist who wrote the hospital in employer and the specialty in occupation may be counted here, there, or in both views depending on which field keyed the rollup. Occupation breakdowns are the natural companion index for this slug.

$4,838,664 from 424 donors

Four hundred twenty-four unique donors produced 21,529 contributions, about 51 itemized gifts per person, with a mean gift near $225 and a per-donor mean near $11,412. High row counts with moderate mean gifts often reflect repeat itemized PAC activity. The packet does not confirm PAC share; it only supplies the four aggregates.

Specialty societies and practice groups can appear as employer text on other slugs. They are not merged into this ANESTHESIOLOGIST total. Adding them would invent dollars the packet does not contain.

Questions

How much have anesthesiologist-labeled filers given federally?

The ANESTHESIOLOGIST industry cluster totals $4,838,664 in itemized FEC contributions, from 21,529 contributions and 424 donors. Filers wrote that specialty in the employer or occupation field. The figure is FEC free text, not a NAICS health-care total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Why is a medical specialty listed as an industry?

LobbyVault industries rank FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Job titles enter the same list as company names because FEC.gov does not attach NAICS. ANESTHESIOLOGIST is the typed string; top employer in the facts is the same word. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

How many unique anesthesiologist-labeled donors are there?

LobbyVault counts 424 donors and 21,529 contributions. Unique-donor count is people whose disclosed text matched ANESTHESIOLOGIST, not a census of board-certified physicians. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Does this include hospital employers?

Only if the industry key on the row is ANESTHESIOLOGIST. Filers who listed a hospital name as employer may sit in that hospital’s industry slug instead. This page’s $4,838,664 is the specialty-string cluster only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.