UNSPSC 85493654: Destruction of left atrial appendage, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left atrial appendage, percutaneous endoscopic 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 02574ZK

UNSPSC 85493654 Destruction of left atrial appendage, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged under this code involve independent medical evaluations for pension benefit determinations, occupational medical surveillance services, specialty surgery networks for employee health plans, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, and surgical procedure carve-out programs — none of which align with the specific cardiac surgical procedure named in the code. State and local procurement offices appear to have misapplied this code to health services contracts that do not involve the left atrial appendage procedure itself.

The geographic span of the misapplied records includes Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (WSDOT), Florida (Collier County), and Texas (Harris County), but these reflect health plan administration, staffing, and clinical evaluation services rather than the procedure specified by the code. No state or local government solicitations for left atrial appendage destruction procedures appear in the recent opportunities. Pursuing vendors under this code would require first establishing whether the issuing bodies' actual procurement intent and the code assignment are correctable upstream, as the current records do not support a clear market signal for the procedure itself.