UNSPSC 85214704: Diagnosis of late syphilis, latent

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a diagnosis of Late syphilis, latent. Late syphilis, latent is listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 as a four digit category under code A52. 8

UNSPSC 85214704 Diagnosis of late syphilis, latent is a Commodity code with no direct alignment to the recent state and local procurement activity posted under it. The three most recent opportunities tagged to this code—a diagnostic imaging PACS system for San Mateo Medical Center, special education contracted services for Birdville Independent School District in Texas, and temporary health professional staffing services for the County of Santa Clara Health System—do not address syphilis diagnosis, late-stage or latent, or any component of the diagnostic pathway for this condition. The code appears to describe a clinical service or procedure within public health or medical contexts, but the state and local solicitations on record do not reflect procurement of diagnostic services, testing protocols, or clinical supplies aligned with that scope.

The mismatch suggests either that this code is rarely or never used by state and local procurement offices for the services it nominally describes, or that the opportunities in the dataset have been tagged incorrectly. No representative recent state and local procurement activity exists under this code that reflects actual buying in the syphilis-diagnosis category. Business development professionals tracking this UNSPSC should verify whether their target agencies use it at all, or whether related diagnostic or clinical services are solicited under different commodity codes within the health or medical services families.