Fresenius Medical Care

Child Organization: Fresenius Medical Care North America

Fresenius Medical Care is a German company specializing in the production of medical supplies, primarily to facilitate or aid renal dialysis. It is 36%-owned by the health care company Fresenius. The company was formed in 1996 from the merger of Fresenius Worldwide Dialysis, then a division of Fresenius SE, and American company National Medical Care. This sector is very complex, and has many different divisions, each with a number of plants.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$1,891,740 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.
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covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Fresenius Medical Care Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$38,870,462 Spent
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covers roughly through Q4, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Fresenius Medical Care

View all lobbying data for Fresenius Medical Care Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 84 dockets; Submitted to 14 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 "Fresenius Medical Care" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Advisory Committees

1 person on 1 committee
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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 "Fresenius Medical Care" that sat on federal advisory committees.

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  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Fresenius Medical Care