UNSPSC 85501526: Drainage of right vertebral artery with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of right vertebral artery with drainage device, 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 039P40Z

UNSPSC 85501526 Drainage of right vertebral artery with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach (Commodity) shows little relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but the six recent opportunities posted under this code — independent medical evaluations for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — represent health services administration and staffing rather than the vertebral artery drainage procedure the code purports to name. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding by issuing bodies or a data classification error upstream.

The opportunities that do appear span multiple issuing bodies across different public-sector verticals: two municipal retirement offices (Phoenix Fire and Police Pension Boards), a city employee benefits program (Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington State Ferries), a county juvenile detention system (Harris County), a county health consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara), with geographic spread across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. The recent activity reflects administrative healthcare procurement — benefits management, staffing pools, occupational health — rather than clinical procedure supply or delivery. Until issuing bodies correctly tag opportunities that match the code's actual procedural scope, this code will not serve as a reliable signal for pursuing vertebral artery drainage work in state and local markets.