UNSPSC 85501246: Release left vertebral artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release left vertebral artery, 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 03NQ3ZZ

UNSPSC 85501246 Release left vertebral artery, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code nominally specifying a single surgical procedure, but the recent state and local contract opportunities associated with this code show no alignment with surgical interventions or vertebral artery work. The opportunities actually being procured are comprehensive healthcare services to institutional populations and managed-care beneficiaries — including inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care platforms, peer support services for mental health workers, and fire department medical direction. This suggests either a systematic miscoding issue or that the code has been applied as a catch-all for healthcare service contracting without specificity to the procedure named. State and local buyers across this code are predominantly county governments and special-purpose districts (Columbus Consolidated Government, Collier County, Monroe County, San Mateo County, and Santa Monica Fire Department), with issuing bodies ranging from purchasing divisions managing jail healthcare to human resources departments procuring employee benefits and behavioral health agencies funding innovation pilots.

Recent activity spans Florida (Collier County and Monroe County), Georgia (Columbus Consolidated Government), California (San Mateo County), and Southern California (Santa Monica), with no concentration in a single region. Representative opportunities include the Columbus Consolidated Government's RFP 26-0008 (posted April 15, 2026; due May 15, 2026) for comprehensive inmate medical and pharmacy services at Muscogee County Prison, currently staffed under a contract expiring September 30, 2026 at $95,537.71 monthly; Collier County Board of County Commissioners' RFP 25-8414 (posted April 9, 2026; due April 9, 2026) for pharmacy benefit management covering approximately 2,400 employees and 4,800 dependents with historical annual spending of approximately $8.7 million; and Monroe County's RFP for virtual primary and urgent care services (due April 16, 2026) covering 2,300 county members. None of these solicitations are structured as procedure-specific contracts. The code as currently applied does not meaningfully predict the work being procured.