UNSPSC 85501247: Release right vertebral artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release right 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 03NP3ZZ

UNSPSC 85501247 Release right vertebral artery, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code show no alignment with the clinical scope of the code itself. The five most-recent opportunities span inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county correctional facility, pharmacy benefit management for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction — none of which involve vertebral artery release procedures or percutaneous vascular interventions. This mismatch suggests either a data-coding error in the state and local procurement systems that assigned these opportunities to the code, or a systematic misclassification at the point of solicitation posting.

The geographic spread of the sparse relevant activity covers Florida (Collier County and Monroe County), Georgia (Muscogee County), California (San Mateo County), and California (Santa Monica), with issuers ranging from county boards of commissioners, consolidated city governments, and county health departments. Because the code shows little to no genuine recent activity in its stated clinical domain at the state and local level, and the few records present do not reflect procurement of the service the code nominally describes, this code presents minimal visibility into actual market demand for vertebral artery release procedures within state and local healthcare contracting.