NAICS 2022 · in 42345
423450
Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Analysis
NAICS 423450 is the 2022 national industry for medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers, part of 42345 (Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers). Census lists 44 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 10,296 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 272,209 people at an average annual payroll of $125,412 per employee (93rd percentile of national industries). 60% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers, artificial limbs merchant wholesalers, beds, hospital, merchant wholesalers and crutches merchant wholesalers, among 44 in all.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 423460, 423990 and 424210. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
For example, merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment, instruments, and/or goods sold, prescribed, or used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians are classified in 423460 (Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers) instead.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional medical equipment, instruments, and supplies (except ophthalmic equipment and instruments and goods used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians).
Illustrative Examples:
Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers Surgical dressings merchant wholesalers Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers Hospital beds merchant wholesalers Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers Surgical instruments and apparatus merchant wholesalers Medical and dental X-ray machines and parts merchant wholesalers First-aid kits (except household) merchant wholesalers Surgical and medical masks merchant wholesalers
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment, instruments, and/or goods sold, prescribed, or used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians | 423460 Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of personal safety devices and supplies (e.g., eye shields, face shields, nonelectric respirators) | 423990 Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of household first-aid kits and nonsurgical bandages | 424210 Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers |
Index entries (44)
- Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers
- Artificial limbs merchant wholesalers
- Beds, hospital, merchant wholesalers
- Crutches merchant wholesalers
- Dental chairs merchant wholesalers
- Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
- Dentists' professional supplies merchant wholesalers
- Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
- Dressings, medical, merchant wholesalers
- Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers
- First-aid kits (except household) merchant wholesalers
- Glassware, medical, merchant wholesalers
- Hearing aids merchant wholesalers
- Home health care supplies merchant wholesalers
- Hospital beds merchant wholesalers
- Hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
- Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers
- Hospital gowns merchant wholesalers
- Instruments, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
- Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
- Medical equipment merchant wholesalers
- Medical furniture merchant wholesalers
- Medical glassware merchant wholesalers
- Medical instruments merchant wholesalers
- Medical supplies (except household first-aid kits and nonsurgical bandages) merchant wholesalers
- Orthopedic equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
- Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers
- Physicians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
- Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers
- Surgical and medical masks merchant wholesalers
- Surgical appliances merchant wholesalers
- Surgical dressings merchant wholesalers
- Surgical instruments and apparatus merchant wholesalers
- Surgical supplies merchant wholesalers
- Surgical towels merchant wholesalers
- Tapes, medical and surgical, merchant wholesalers
- Teeth, dental, merchant wholesalers
- Therapy equipment merchant wholesalers
- Thermometers merchant wholesalers
- Towels, surgical, merchant wholesalers