Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

A catalog of 1.5 million wholesale actions

One million five hundred twenty-seven thousand one hundred six awards against $5,699,354,370.91 produces a mean of about $3,732. No other code in this 40-packet slice comes close to that award volume. Service-establishment equipment wholesalers (423850) show 296,722 awards; medicinal manufacturing (325411) shows 293,920. NAICS 423450 is in another volume class: many small medical-supply deliveries tagged to merchant wholesalers.

Merchant wholesalers distribute medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies they did not necessarily manufacture. Surgical and medical instrument manufacturing (339112) is a maker code. General medical and surgical hospitals (622110) is a hospital-services code. This $5.7 billion is the wholesale tag only.

This page reports public contract aggregates. It does not recommend devices or interpret clinical use. The only numbers in scope are the obligation total and the award count.

Medical wholesale (423450) is a high-volume supply tag: 1,527,106 awards at $5,699,354,370.91, about $3,732 per award. Service-establishment wholesale (423450’s neighbor 423850) and medicinal manufacturing (325411) are different classes with their own hubs. NAICS 423450 is a catalog of small medical-supply deliveries tagged to merchant wholesalers.

Small-ticket obligations

Short wholesale deliveries often obligate and pay close together. Blanket purchase agreements can still leave unused obligated balances. The $5.7 billion is the commitment total, not a statement that every glove or device is paid.

The 1,527,106-award count is not a unit count of syringes or beds. USAspending’s award grouping determines how delivery orders roll up. Dividing dollars by awards is not a catalog price.

Questions

How many awards are tagged NAICS 423450?

USAspending contract records indexed here show 1,527,106 awards under medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers, totaling $5,699,354,370.91 in obligations. That is the highest award count in this industry batch. The count is not a unit count of supplies. Award rows are on the industry page.

What is the average 423450 award?

Dividing $5,699,354,370.91 by 1,527,106 awards yields about $3,732. That low mean reflects many modest wholesale deliveries. It is not a device list price. The packet does not publish a median or a SKU count. Inspect the industry table rather than treating $3,732 as a catalog price; the packet has no SKU or unit count.

Is this the same as hospital spending?

No. General medical and surgical hospitals are NAICS 622110. NAICS 423450 is merchant wholesale of medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies. The $5.7 billion here does not include 622110 dollars. Use each industry page for its tagged total. Use the 622110 hub for hospital-service dollars and this hub for the medical-wholesale tag.

Does wholesale mean the government made these devices?

No. Merchant wholesalers distribute goods. Surgical and medical instrument manufacturing is NAICS 339112. This $5.7 billion is the 423450 wholesale tag on contract awards. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. This page is not clinical advice. Use the 339112 hub for instrument manufacturing; this page is merchant wholesale and is not clinical advice.