Ophthalmologist contributions to AAO OphthPAC

An academy PAC on a third of the specialty book

32.2% of Ophthalmologist itemized dollars landed on OphthPAC. $4,630,449 went to other federal committees. Optometrist is a different occupation key if present and is not inside $6,828,666.

17,506 receipts at mean $126 is a high-count pattern for a $2.2 million join. Repeat itemizations can raise the count. Unique donors are unpublished.

Links: Ophthalmologist occupation hub, OphthPAC committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Neurosurgeon and adult cardiology are sibling specialty pages, not subsets.

Keep Ophthalmologist → OphthPAC (C00196246): $2,198,217 in 17,506 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

OPHTHALMOLOGIST as typed

The occupation-wide total is $6,828,666. Eye surgeon, MD, and optometrist can exist as other strings. They are not inside $6,828,666 unless stored as OPHTHALMOLOGIST. MD versus OD is not an FEC recode on this page; the stored string is Ophthalmologist.

A filer can list Ophthalmologist and never appear in $2,198,217. A filer can list Physician on C00196246 and sit outside this occupation slice.

Quote Ophthalmologist for the occupation-wide $6,828,666 and quote AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC POLITICAL COMMITTEE (OPHTHPAC) (C00196246) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,198,217 across 17,506 itemized receipts, 32.2% of the occupation book, mean $126. Remainder $4,630,449 (67.8%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,198,217 to $6,828,666. Do not treat 17,506 as unique donors.

C00196246 as OphthPAC

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC POLITICAL COMMITTEE (OPHTHPAC) received $2,198,217 from this occupation key. Other occupations on the same PAC sit outside the join. $2,198,217 is not the PAC’s all-occupation total and not Academy dues.

Independent expenditures are excluded. Cycle year is not in the packet. Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file.

Amended Schedule A filings move $2,198,217 and $6,828,666. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What 32.2 percent does not prove

A large dollar share is not an Academy membership rate and not a headcount of practicing ophthalmologists. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Do not fold optometrist totals into this page.

Device and drug-industry stories are not fields. The join is two FEC labels. Correlation of a specialty string with OphthPAC is a filing pattern.

Keep Ophthalmologist → OphthPAC (C00196246): $2,198,217 in 17,506 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Ophthalmologist $6,828,666; Ophthalmologist to C00196246 $2,198,217 in 17,506 contributions; mean $126. Not independent expenditures.

All FEC ties holds sibling specialty-PAC pages. Do not add the two dollar totals. Later bulk files override this snapshot.

Quote Ophthalmologist for the occupation-wide $6,828,666 and quote AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC POLITICAL COMMITTEE (OPHTHPAC) (C00196246) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,198,217 across 17,506 itemized receipts, 32.2% of the occupation book, mean $126. Remainder $4,630,449 (67.8%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,198,217 to $6,828,666. Do not treat 17,506 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did ophthalmologists give to OphthPAC?

$2,198,217 in 17,506 itemized contributions from occupation Ophthalmologist to C00196246. That is 32.2% of Ophthalmologist’s $6,828,666 occupation-wide total. Mean $126 is arithmetic. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Are optometrists included?

Only if the occupation line stored Ophthalmologist. Optometrist is a different key. This page does not recode eye-care titles. Use All occupations to compare neighboring strings. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $2.2 million OphthPAC’s total fundraising?

No. $2,198,217 is the Ophthalmologist occupation slice. Other occupations on C00196246 sit on the committee overlay. Dues and independent expenditures are outside the source note. The live FEC committee file is the PAC-wide view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Why are there more than 17,000 contributions?

17,506 is a receipt count. Repeat itemizations raise counts. Mean $126 is consistent with many modest gifts. Cite $2,198,217 with the count; do not convert the count into a board-certified roster. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.