UNSPSC 85501148: Destruction of left vertebral artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction 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 035Q0ZZ

UNSPSC 85501148 Destruction of left vertebral artery, open approach (Commodity) shows no relevant state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure, but the six recent opportunities posted under or tagged to this code — independent medical evaluations for public safety pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-outs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — do not involve vertebral artery destruction or spine surgery procurement. State and local governments do not appear to purchase this specific surgical service as a contracted commodity or to solicit it in open procurement.

The mismatch between the code's anatomical specificity and the actual opportunities suggests either a tagging error in the source data or a fundamental misalignment between UNSPSC's medical procedure taxonomy and how state and local procurement offices classify health services contracting. For business development purposes, this code should be monitored only if your firm is bidding on the unrelated medical services opportunities cited above — which would be pursued under a different code and procurement stream.