Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. CHOP has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Parents Magazine in recent years. As of 2008, it was ranked #1 in the nation for pediatrics. The hospital is located next to the University of Pennsylvania and its physicians serve as the pediatrics department of Penn's School of Medicine.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$36,455 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

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  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

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    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

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  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$830,936 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q4, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia $830,936
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Health Issues,
    • Medicare & Medicaid,
    • Taxes,
    • Defense,
    • Immigration,
    • Pharmacy,
    • Transportation
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1852 Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2011
    S.958 Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2011
    S.1599 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.1080 Pediatric Research Consortia Establishment Act
    H.R.5972 Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2013
    S.2322 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
    S.3295 Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2013
    H.R.2112 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    S.1596 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
View all lobbying data for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 32 dockets; Submitted to 7 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Children's Hospital of Philadelphia" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

44 grants; 3 contracts
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2012 Health Resources And Services Administration CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PAYMENT PROGRAM $8,076,444
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2011 Health Resources And Services Administration CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PAYMENT PROGRAM $7,576,575
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2012 National Institutes Of Health CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP CHAIR'S GRANT $7,105,798
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2012 Health Resources And Services Administration CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PAYMENT PROGRAM $6,142,785
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 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2012 National Institutes Of Health TELEMEDICINE APPROACHES TO EVALUATING ACUTE-PHASE ROP - EROP $3,563,079
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2011 National Institutes Of Health TELEMEDICINE APPROACHES TO EVALUATING ACUTE-PHASE ROP - EROP $3,553,111
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2011 Health Resources And Services Administration CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PAYMENT PROGRAM $3,266,097
contract
 Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia 2011 National Institutes Of Health TITLE: NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STUDY VANGUARD CENTER BASE PERIOD: 03/11/2011 - 03/03/2012OPTION PERIOD: 03/04/2012 - 03/03/2013CONTRACT TYPE: COST REIMBURSEMENT/COMPLETION/OPTIONRFP NO.: RFP-NIH-NICHD-NCS-SS-1022 $3,129,341
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2012 Agency For Health Care Policy And Research PHIS+: AUGMENTING THE PEDIATRIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH CLINICAL DATA $2,910,261
grant
 Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia 2011 Agency For Health Care Policy And Research PHIS+: AUGMENTING THE PEDIATRIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH CLINICAL DATA $2,900,647
View all grant & loan data for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia View all contract data for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Sources: USASpending.gov

Advisory Committees

6 people on 6 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Children's Hospital of Philadelphia" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 5 people on 5 committees
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia