NAICS 423450
What is the NAICS code 423450?
The NAICS code 423450 is applied to those industries related to 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
- First-aid kits (except household) merchant wholesalers
- Surgical and medical masks merchant wholesalers
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 423450 in the North American Industry Classification System.
This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:
- 42 - Wholesale Trade
- 423 - Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
- 4234 - Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- 42345 - Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- 423450 - Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 423450
NAFTA
This code is only used in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It´s to say, it is not used in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Related codes
The NAICS industry 423450 has the following cross-references:
- Merchant wholesale distribution of household first-aid kits and nonsurgical bandages are classified in Industry 424210, Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers.
- Merchant wholesale distribution of personal safety devices and supplies (e.g., eye shields, face shields, nonelectric respirators) are classified in Industry 423990, Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers.
- 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.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers industry (NAICS Code 423450):
- 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
- Ultrasound equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers
- Wheelchairs merchant wholesalers
- Whirlpool baths, hospital, merchant wholesalers
- X-ray machines and parts, medical and dental, merchant wholesalers
