UNSPSC 85493416: Destruction of papillary muscle, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of papillary muscle, percutaneous 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 025D3ZZ

UNSPSC 85493416 Destruction of papillary muscle, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with state and local procurement activity. The code's clinical specificity—a cardiovascular surgical procedure—does not match the scope of recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code. Those opportunities instead cover occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-out programs for public employees, and specialty emergency medical services for youth in detention. None of these solicitations involve the procedural intervention the code nominally describes.

The recent opportunities across this code span state health systems, county procurement offices, city retirement boards, and county juvenile probation departments in Washington, Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. The Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP (due October 9, 2026) and the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP (due October 16, 2026) represent the most directly health-services-oriented activity, yet both fall outside the code's stated scope. The mismatch suggests either a coding error in the source data or that the code captures administrative and clinical services tangentially related to the code name rather than the specific percutaneous papillary muscle destruction procedure itself. A vendor evaluating this code should verify whether the classification reflects actual procurement patterns at the jurisdictions of interest or whether opportunities are tagged inconsistently.