Health and social care companies in Brazil

Brazil's Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) lists 867,116 companies in human health and social work activities (ISIC section Q), all of them active, which is 7.9% of all Brazilian records in the LatSouth build (data as of 2026-10-10). By state, São Paulo leads with 252,927 (29% of the section), followed by Minas Gerais (96,151) and Rio de Janeiro (87,099). The largest divisions are 86 (human health activities, 806,274) and 88 (social work activities without accommodation, 33,730); one further division completes it.

Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, dental and medical practices, care homes and social-assistance organisations. In Brazil and Colombia a large share of division 86 is physicians incorporated as single-practitioner companies; filter by size or legal form to separate institutions from practices. Healthtech, medical supply, health-plan and revenue-cycle vendors are the buyers. In Brazil, 97% of these rows carry an ISIC class; size is known for 82%; 7.2% have a corporate domain or HTTP-verified website; 139,376 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. Brazilian rows are active establishments; 801,125 of them are head offices in the clean B2B universe (private, not sole-owner, name unmasked).