UNSPSC 42203418: Atherectomy catheter

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a flexible tube inserted through a narrow opening in a artherectomy procedure. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901839.

UNSPSC 42203418 Atherectomy catheter is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local solicitations, does not describe work state and local governments are actually procuring under this classification. The two recent opportunities tagged to this code—occupational medical surveillance services from the Washington State Department of Transportation and medical supplies including gastrostomy feeding tubes and IV stabilization devices from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission—involve neither atherectomy catheters nor the vascular intervention devices this code nominally covers. The Washington solicitation (RFP20260825) seeks physician-led occupational health examinations across 14 ferry system locations with a two-year initial term and optional five-year extensions; the Texas solicitation (IFB HHS0017603) procures enteral feeding equipment and monitoring supplies for a state residential care facility under a one-year blanket purchase agreement with a single optional one-year extension. Neither procurement involves cardiovascular devices or interventional equipment.

The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its stated commodity scope. Atherectomy catheters represent a specialized medical device category more commonly procured through federal health system supply chains, group purchasing organizations, or hospital networks than through general state and local RFP and IFB channels. State and local governments purchasing under this UNSPSC code should verify that their internal tagging and upstream sourcing databases are correctly classifying cardiovascular interventional supplies; the current record suggests possible miscoding or over-broad category assignment in the jurisdictions' procurement systems.