2017 NAICS Definition

T = Canadian, Mexican, and United States industries are comparable.

423450 Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

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


Cross-References.
  • Establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment, instruments, and/or goods sold, prescribed, or used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians are classified in Industry 423460, Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers.
2007
NAICS		   2012
NAICS		   2017
NAICS		   Corresponding Index
Entries
423450   423450   423450   Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Artificial limbs merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Beds, hospital, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Crutches merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Dental chairs merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Dentists' professional supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Dressings, medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   First-aid kits, industrial, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Glassware, medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Hearing aids merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Home health care supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Hospital beds merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Hospital gowns merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Industrial safety devices (e.g., eye shields, face shields, first-aid kits) merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Instruments, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Medical equipment merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Medical furniture merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Medical glassware merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Medical instruments merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Medical supplies (except household first-aid kits and non-surgical bandages) merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Orthopedic equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Physicians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Surgical appliances merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Surgical dressings merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Surgical instruments and apparatus merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Surgical supplies merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Surgical towels merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Tapes, medical and surgical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Teeth, dental, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Therapy equipment merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Thermometers merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Towels, surgical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Ultrasound equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Wheelchairs merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   Whirlpool baths, hospital, merchant wholesalers
423450   423450   423450   X-ray machines and parts, medical and dental, merchant wholesalers