Not via the WZ code: all specialist practices are in class 86.22. A selection by specialty relies on the practice name and is therefore incomplete. We tell you in advance how many records it covers.
Q 86–88 · S 96
Medical and dental practices, hospitals, care homes, outpatient services, therapy practices as well as hairdressing, beauty and sauna businesses – for medical technology, practice supplies, billing and software providers, hygiene and linen suppliers.
247,473 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Divisions 86 human health (218,514), 87 residential care (6,078) and 88 social work (22,881) combined. Beauty and wellness businesses (part of WZ 96) are not included. We quote the size, contact coverage and price of your export on request.
This industry combines section Q “Human health and social work activities” with two classes of personal services. These are very different target groups; hardly any request needs all of them at once.
The official breakdown of medical practices is simple: general practice, specialist, dentist. The classification does not distinguish specialties such as orthopaedics, ophthalmology or dermatology.
| WZ 2008 | Official title | For your selection |
|---|---|---|
| 86.1 | Hospital activities | hospitals (86.10.1), university hospitals (86.10.2), preventive care and rehabilitation clinics (86.10.3) |
| 86.21 | General medical practice activities | GP practices |
| 86.22 | Specialist medical practice activities | no official breakdown by specialty |
| 86.23 | Dental practice activities | one class without further breakdown |
| 86.9 | Other human health activities | psychotherapy (86.90.1), massage and physiotherapy practices and midwives (86.90.2), non-medical practitioners (Heilpraktiker, 86.90.3) |
| 87 | Residential care activities | nursing homes (87.1), homes for the elderly (87.3) |
| 88 | Social work activities without accommodation | outpatient social services; 88.10 care for the elderly and disabled |
| 96.02 / 96.04 | Hairdressing and beauty treatment / Physical well-being activities (saunas, solariums, baths and the like) | the “wellness” part of the industry |
Healthcare has many registers. But they serve care provision and supervision; only some of them are intended for the public.
These 15 columns are included.
A medical practice is usually not a business with a register entry. Doctors practise a liberal profession; single and group practices are not in the commercial register. They are visible through their own website. Such a record is personal data – with all the consequences for the duty to inform and the right to object.
With clinics and care homes it is the other way round: the operator is a company, an association or a public body and often runs many facilities. In a list of businesses, the operator appears at its registered office, not each facility. If you need locations, the official hospital directory serves you better.
Hairdressers practise a licensed craft, beauticians an unlicensed one – both are listed in the annexes to the Crafts Code. In the statistics they share class 96.02. They can only be separated via the business name.
We sell practice software for therapists and are looking for physiotherapy and massage practices (86.90.2) in Saxony and Thuringia with a phone number. Midwives are in the same subclass – please tell us how reliably they can be excluded.
Use cases
Catalogue mailings and field sales planning by postcode.
Booking appointments by phone with practices or outpatient services in a federal state.
Approaching care homes and clinics in a business’s catchment area.
Salons and studios in a region for specialist wholesalers.
Questions
Not via the WZ code: all specialist practices are in class 86.22. A selection by specialty relies on the practice name and is therefore incomplete. We tell you in advance how many records it covers.
No. § 9 Ärzte-ZV names the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the health insurance funds and their state associations and the physician themselves as entitled to inspect it. What is public are the associations’ doctor searches for insured persons and what a practice states on its own website.
§ 7 UWG governs the channel as for other businesses: email only with prior express consent (subsection 2 no. 2), phone only with at least presumed consent (subsection 2 no. 1). Additional special rules apply to advertising medicines and medical devices, which you should have reviewed by a lawyer.
247,473 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Divisions 86 human health (218,514), 87 residential care (6,078) and 88 social work (22,881) combined. Beauty and wellness businesses (part of WZ 96) are not included. This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
Format, sources, price and marketing law (§ 7 UWG): questions about all industries.