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2017 Edition

national industry 423450

Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Overview

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).

The immediate parent of national industry 423450 is international industry 42345: Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

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

2017 NAICS Edition 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.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 423450 - Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers
  2. 423450 - Artificial limbs merchant wholesalers
  3. 423450 - Beds, hospital, merchant wholesalers
  4. 423450 - Crutches merchant wholesalers
  5. 423450 - Dental chairs merchant wholesalers
  6. 423450 - Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
  7. 423450 - Dentists' professional supplies merchant wholesalers
  8. 423450 - Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
  9. 423450 - Dressings, medical, merchant wholesalers
  10. 423450 - Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers
  11. 423450 - First-aid kits, industrial, merchant wholesalers
  12. 423450 - Glassware, medical, merchant wholesalers
  13. 423450 - Hearing aids merchant wholesalers
  14. 423450 - Home health care supplies merchant wholesalers
  15. 423450 - Hospital beds merchant wholesalers
  16. 423450 - Hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
  17. 423450 - Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers
  18. 423450 - Hospital gowns merchant wholesalers
  19. 423450 - Industrial safety devices (e.g., eye shields, face shields, first-aid kits) merchant wholesalers
  20. 423450 - Instruments, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
  21. 423450 - Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers
  22. 423450 - Medical equipment merchant wholesalers
  23. 423450 - Medical furniture merchant wholesalers
  24. 423450 - Medical glassware merchant wholesalers
  25. 423450 - Medical instruments merchant wholesalers
  26. 423450 - Medical supplies (except household first-aid kits and non-surgical bandages) merchant wholesalers
  27. 423450 - Orthopedic equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
  28. 423450 - Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers
  29. 423450 - Physicians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
  30. 423450 - Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers
  31. 423450 - Surgical appliances merchant wholesalers
  32. 423450 - Surgical dressings merchant wholesalers
  33. 423450 - Surgical instruments and apparatus merchant wholesalers
  34. 423450 - Surgical supplies merchant wholesalers
  35. 423450 - Surgical towels merchant wholesalers
  36. 423450 - Tapes, medical and surgical, merchant wholesalers
  37. 423450 - Teeth, dental, merchant wholesalers
  38. 423450 - Therapy equipment merchant wholesalers
  39. 423450 - Thermometers merchant wholesalers
  40. 423450 - Towels, surgical, merchant wholesalers
  41. 423450 - Ultrasound equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
  42. 423450 - Wheelchairs merchant wholesalers
  43. 423450 - Whirlpool baths, hospital, merchant wholesalers
  44. 423450 - X-ray machines and parts, medical and dental, merchant wholesalers

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 423450
2007 423450
2012 423450
2017 423450
2022 423450

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 5047 - Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 423450, Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers:

  1. contact lense eye glass prosthetic device hearing aid
  2. dental hospital surgical drafting engineering scientific equipment
  3. dental hospital surgical drafting engineering scientific equipment wholesale
  4. drafting dental hospital surgical engineering scientific equipment wholesale
  5. engineering hospital dental surgical drafting scientific equipment wholesale
  6. eye glass contact lense prosthetic device hearing aid
  7. hearing aid distributor
  8. hearing aid establishment wholesale
  9. hearing aid prosthetic device eye glass contact lense
  10. hospital dental surgical drafting engineering scientific equipment wholesale
  11. life science distributing excluding product liability
  12. medical dental and hospital equipment and supply
  13. medical dental and hospital equipment and supply merchant wholesaler
  14. medical dental and hospital equipment and supply merchant wholesaler naic
  15. medical hospital and surgical supply store
  16. medical hospital and surgical supply store including rental general liability is not available
  17. merchant wholesaler durable good
  18. miscellaneous not otherwise classified
  19. miscellaneous not otherwise classified wholesale
  20. orthopedic appliance sale
  21. professional and commercial equipment and supply merchant wholesaler
  22. prosthetic device hearing aid eye glass contact lense
  23. prosthetic device hearing aid eye glass contact lense wholesale
  24. scientific hospital dental surgical drafting engineering equipment wholesale
  25. store wholesale not otherwise classified
  26. store wholesale store not otherwise classified
  27. surgical dental hospital drafting engineering scientific equipment wholesale
  28. wholesale durable good
  29. wholesale store not otherwise classified
  30. wholesale trade

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