62111 Offices of Physicians

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments of health practitioners having the degree of M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) or D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) primarily engaged in the independent practice of general or specialized medicine (e.g., anesthesiology, oncology, ophthalmology, psychiatry) or surgery. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Health maintenance organization (HMO) medical centers; freestanding medical centers primarily engaged in providing emergency medical care for accident or trauma victims and freestanding ambulatory surgical centers primarily engaged in providing surgery on an outpatient basis; and outpatient community health clinics with health practitioners from multiple industries are classified in Industry 62149, Other Outpatient Care Centers.
• Establishments of oral pathologists are classified in Industry 62121, Offices of Dentists.
• Establishments of independent mental health practitioners (except physicians) are classified in Industry 62133, Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians).
• Establishments of speech or voice pathologists are classified in Industry 62134, Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists.
• Outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers are classified in Industry 62142, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers.
• Establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential counseling services for substance abuse, mental health, suicide intervention, and other crisis intervention social services to children and youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and all other individuals and families are classified in Industry Group 6241, Individual and Family Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Codes in 62111

• 621111Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)
• 621112Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists