Industries › Medical Device › Boston
Across 7 counties, the Boston metro counts 133,807 business locations employing 2,681,704 people. The 8,259 with 50–499 employees are the starting pool for a medical device campaign, and Sapper works them by phone first.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physician offices | 2,237 | 41,211 | 116 | 5 | +28 |
| Outpatient care centers | 876 | 29,100 | 113 | 3 | +21 |
| Hospitals | 99 | 161,050 | 32 | 51 | +9 |
| Medical & diagnostic labs | 353 | 4,860 | 25 | 0 | +28 |
| Dental offices | 2,419 | 19,313 | 10 | 0 | −9 |
Where to start: Physician offices and outpatient care centers hold the most mid-size locations, 229 between them. Physician offices grew most: +28 locations from 2022 to 2023, ahead of medical & diagnostic labs (+28). Acute care hospitals in the metro include Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Marlborough Hospital, Lowell General Hospital, Melrosewakefield Healthcare, Emerson Hospital – (CMS).
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex, MA | 44,624 | 2,004 | 5,202 | 6,991 |
| Suffolk, MA | 22,034 | 1,781 | 2,169 | 3,477 |
| Norfolk, MA | 20,745 | 1,189 | 2,710 | 2,617 |
| Essex, MA | 19,988 | 913 | 2,328 | 2,111 |
| Plymouth, MA | 13,421 | 658 | 1,417 | 1,325 |
Where the market sits: Middlesex County and Suffolk County hold 49.8% of the metro’s business locations across 7 counties. Norfolk County is third, with 20,745 locations, 2,710 of them in health care.
The metro has 175 medical, dental and hospital equipment wholesaler locations. Not all of them sell what you sell, but many are reaching out to the same administrators and department heads.
What wins: naming the buyer’s problem in their words, then asking one question. A list of services sounds like everyone else in Boston.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a medical device company, the list starts with care setting: hospital, physician office, outpatient center or lab. Then product fit and who buys in that setting. In Boston, a first pass could start with the 116 mid-size physician offices locations and the 113 in outpatient care centers. How appointment setting works →
The 7-county Boston metro has 133,807 business locations. 8,259 have 50–499 employees and 484 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in physician offices (116), followed by outpatient care centers (113).
Titles to test first include medical and health services managers. The metro has 12,990 of them, plus 1,940 purchasing managers. The final titles depend on what you sell, and you approve the list before anyone calls.
Nearby markets: Medical Device in Worcester (38 mi), Medical Device in Providence (41 mi) and Medical Device in Manchester (48 mi).
If your buyers are Boston contractors or home-service companies, Abstrakt’s Boston page covers that market.
