UNSPSC 85501123: Drainage of left vertebral artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left vertebral 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 039Q0ZZ

UNSPSC 85501123 Drainage of left vertebral artery, open approach is a Commodity code that does not describe work state and local governments are actually buying. The recent opportunities tagged under this code span independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical procedure networks for municipal employee health plans, occupational health surveillance for transportation workers, emergency and specialty care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary clinical staffing — none of which align with a specific surgical procedure on a named artery. The code shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement.

The mismatch between the code's nominal scope — a discrete surgical intervention — and the actual solicitations suggests either systematic miscoding in source records or a categorical error in how the code has been applied. Business development professionals evaluating activity under this code should treat it as dormant for state and local procurement purposes and flag the tagging inconsistency with procurement offices when qualifying opportunities for pipeline development.