UNSPSC 85491153: Destruction of left pulmonary artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left pulmonary artery, open approach. This surgical intervention or procedure is listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 as code 025R0ZZ

UNSPSC 85491153 Destruction of left pulmonary artery, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The code's medical taxonomy label references a specific surgical procedure, yet recent opportunities posted under this code solicit independent medical evaluation services, occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, hospital-based emergency and specialty care for detained youth, and surgical procedure carve-out programs for employee health plans. None of these services involve destruction of a pulmonary artery or correlate to the code's procedural scope. The mismatch suggests either a data labeling error or systematic miscoding by the issuing bodies, rendering the code unreliable for forecasting work in this category.

Across the six recent opportunities, issuing bodies include a city retirement office (Phoenix), two municipalities (Long Beach and Washington State ferries), a county probation department (Harris County), a county board of commissioners (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara). Geographic activity spans Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Washington. Response dates cluster in September and October 2026. Without a coherent scope of work tied to the code's nominal definition, and given that the opportunities posted under it address employee benefits administration, occupational health compliance, and temporary clinical staffing rather than surgical intervention, the code presents no viable business development signal for firms specializing in the procedures it purports to describe.