UNSPSC 85501518: Excision of left vertebral artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left vertebral artery, 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 03BQ4ZZ

UNSPSC 85501518 (Excision of left vertebral artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach) is a Commodity code that shows no substantive recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its clinical procedure scope. The code's nominal description names a specific surgical intervention—percutaneous endoscopic excision of the left vertebral artery—a specialized neurovascular procedure that state and local governments do not directly procure as a line item or service contract. The six recent opportunities tagged under this code address independent medical evaluation services (Phoenix Retirement Office), surgical benefit management and Centers of Excellence coordination (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance programs (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and inpatient care for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary ancillary health professional staffing (Santa Clara County Health System). None of these solicitations involve procurement of or contracting for the specific vertebral artery procedure named in the code; the mismatch suggests either a coding error in the source data or that the code has been applied as a catch-all for medical services categories without category-specific precision.

Because the recent opportunities do not reflect procurement activity under the nominal scope of the code, there is no meaningful geographic concentration, issuing-body pattern, or representative work stream to characterize. Bidders should verify code alignment in any RFP that references UNSPSC 85501518 for health services, as the current tagging does not reliably signal the type of clinical services or contracting structure being sought.