UNSPSC 85501423: Supplement left vertebral artery with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left vertebral artery with autologous tissue substitute, 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 03UQ47Z

UNSPSC 85501423 Supplement left vertebral artery with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the recent state and local contract activity posted under it. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure on the vertebral artery, yet the six most recent opportunities tagged to this code solicit occupational medical surveillance services, independent medical evaluations for disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency and specialty medical care for detained youth—none of which involve vertebral artery supplementation or autologous tissue substitution. The mismatch suggests systematic miscoding in the state and local procurement systems recording these opportunities, rendering the code an unreliable signal for vendors pursuing work in any of these service categories.

The recent opportunities do reveal fragmented demand across multiple issuing bodies and states: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona), City of Long Beach (California), Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and County of Santa Clara Health System (California). Taken as a whole, these solicitations reflect municipal, county, and state purchasing of occupational health, benefits administration, and temporary clinical staffing services—work that falls under other UNSPSC families focused on health-care services delivery and human resources administration. Vendors tracking this code should treat it as a watch-only category until the underlying coding error is resolved; the actual procurement activity here belongs elsewhere in the taxonomy and should be monitored under the appropriate health-services and staffing families instead.