SURGEON

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.

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.