They currently have 8,000 square-feet of inventory but because of increased growth, will soon be moving into a 60,000 square-foot company headquarters, with 20,000 of that designated for parts.

"Our business has been good and we are still increasing," Probst says. "We had some niche sales last year that made up a certain percentage, but we mainly focus on what we can do best."


Only in their second fiscal year, the Pompano Beach, FL-based Platinum Medical Parts LLC decided to use their imaging expertise to concentrate solely on GE MRI parts and in the words of company president Jeffrey Fall, "We are booming."

"My partners and I had been in the imaging business for years and years and we got to the point where we were saving all this stuff and we decided to seriously start acquiring parts and get into the business," Fall says. "We really try to give our customer a higher level of service. We have engineers answer the part calls to make sure they are getting the right parts and can answer any questions that need to be addressed. Unless we find that same expertise for other modalities, we won't be branching out yet."


A Whole Lot of Parts

For the past seven years, PartsSource has laid claim to being the nation's only multi-manufacturer, multi-modality alternative parts supplier supporting both imaging and biomed parts requests for hospital equipment. They further assert that they are the only company to offer parts support for all 2,500 separate makes, models and modalities of hospital equipment.

"PartsSource is unique in that we don't specialize in one particular modality or manufacturer. As a matter of fact, we like to say our specialty is that we don't have one," says Don Hubbard, Senior VP Sales & Marketing. "We sell $50 parts to the technician working on infusion pumps and we sell $50,000 parts to the technician working on an MRI. Because selling parts is all we do, our total focus is on enhancing our ability to deliver high quality parts to our customers faster and at a lower cost than anyone else."

ReMedPar was founded in 1987 and has spent the past two decades becoming the largest independent provider of medical diagnostic imaging parts in the United States.

"I believe we have thousands of parts with an inventory of $23 million, so we have a pretty large inventory," says Hall. "We have an extensive business relationship with many suppliers and we can source as well."

While many of the smaller companies can't offer quite the same variety, a number of them do try to stock up on anything and everything that they can get their hands on.

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