Medical laboratories (NAICS 621511) in federal contract obligations

Five thousand five hundred twenty-four awards, $2.18 billion

The $2,178,992,949.19 obligation stock sits on 5,524 contract awards, implying about $394,300 per award. Laboratory contracting can mix reference-lab vehicles with smaller task orders for specific assays. The packet does not split test menus. It supports the sum and the count.

In-vitro diagnostic substance manufacturing (325413) is a product code for reagents and kits. Medical laboratories is a services code for running tests. Those dollars are not inside 621511 unless the award also carried this NAICS. Do not merge manufacturing and lab services without citing both hubs.

Lab-contract obligations versus claims paid

Medicare clinical-lab fee-schedule payments are outlays against a benefit program. USAspending.gov NAICS 621511 is procurement: contracts tagged medical laboratories. $2,178,992,949.19 is the second of those. Adding Part B lab payments to this total would mix instruments.

Assistance for public-health lab capacity may lack NAICS. Those grants would not increment this industry total. Keep 621511 on the contract hub.

What 5,524 does not count

The award count includes orders and modifications that keep 621511. It is not 5,524 labs and not 5,524 specimens. One reference-lab IDIQ can generate many of those rows. The industry page lists recipients.

Neighboring health codes

Outpatient care centers, kidney dialysis, and diagnostic-substance manufacturing appear elsewhere in this extract. Compare them on the all-industries index. Medical laboratories is the 621511 services tag, not the entire diagnostic sector.

Using the medical-laboratories hub

The Medical Laboratories industry page lists the USAspending.gov actions behind $2.18 billion. Agencies and vendors belong there. This guide does not invent turnaround times or positivity rates.

Citing 621511 without turning it into a test-volume score

Quote $2,178,992,949.19 as USAspending contract obligations on 5,524 awards tagged NAICS 621511. Do not convert the total into tests performed. Laboratory NAICS on contracts record contractor commitments as classified, not LIS throughput.

Diagnostic-substance manufacturers and electromedical-device makers use 325413 and 334510 when tagged that way. Their dollars are not automatically inside $2.18 billion. The table follows the reported six digits.

The 5,524-award count should travel with the dollars. Warehouse refreshes can move both figures. Recoding an order to a residual outpatient code would send new actions off this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 5,524 awards, and open the hub for recipients. Stop before converting medical laboratories into clinical advice.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,178,992,949 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 5,524 awards tagged NAICS 621511 (MEDICAL LABORATORIES). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,178,992,949; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

MEDICAL LABORATORIES shows 5,524 award records, enough to include recurring orders without resembling a micro-purchase flood. Modifications that keep the code are inside the count. Health and social-assistance codes on USAspending.gov record tagged contracts, not benefit claims and not caseloads. MEDICAL LABORATORIES is not a clinical directory. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,178,992,949 and the 5,524-award count. Treat the live MEDICAL LABORATORIES industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 621511 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,178,992,949. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 5,524 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

A second check on language: do not call $2,178,992,949 an appropriation, a budget request, or cash disbursed. It is the recorded contract-obligation stock for MEDICAL LABORATORIES (NAICS 621511) in the indexed USAspending.gov extract. Do not call 5,524 a count of establishments. It is an award-record count. Those two constraints are the whole method of this guide.

Place-of-performance, set-aside, and recipient fields, when needed, live on the MEDICAL LABORATORIES industry page rather than in this packet. This guide repeats only NAICS 621511, $2,178,992,949, and 5,524 awards so that a searcher can land on the correct hub without treating the overlay prose as a substitute for the award table. If a later modification recodes work off 621511, new actions leave this total; historical rows remain until the warehouse restates them.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 621511 medical laboratories?

USAspending.gov contract awards tagged Medical Laboratories show $2,178,992,949.19 in obligations on 5,524 awards. That is a procurement commitment total, not Medicare lab payments and not a test count. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,178,992,949 obligation stock and the 5,524 contract awards tagged MEDICAL LABORATORIES (NAICS 621511). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Does this include Medicare clinical laboratory claims?

No. Benefit claims are outlays against insurance programs. This table sums contract obligations tagged 621511. The $2,178,992,949.19 is the procurement slice, not Part B payments. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,178,992,949 on 5,524 awards coded NAICS 621511. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Is this the same as in-vitro diagnostic manufacturing?

No. Reagent and kit manufacturing uses NAICS 325413 when tagged that way. Only awards reported as 621511 feed the $2,178,992,949.19 on this page. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 621511, $2,178,992,949 obligated, and 5,524 awards for MEDICAL LABORATORIES.

Do 5,524 awards mean 5,524 laboratories?

No. The 5,524 figure counts contract records, including orders and modifications that keep 621511. One vehicle can generate many awards. The industry page lists the records. Do not treat 5,524 as establishments or $2,178,992,949 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 621511 (MEDICAL LABORATORIES), not assistance and not outlays.