UNSPSC 85502607: Repair right external carotid artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to repair right external carotid artery, open 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 03QM0ZZ

UNSPSC 85502607 Repair right external carotid artery, open approach is a Commodity code that describes a surgical procedure with no relevant recent state and local government procurement activity. The recent opportunities tagged to this code reflect a substantial mismatch: they cover inmate medical and pharmacy services management, pharmacy benefit administration, virtual primary care platforms, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction — none of which involve vascular surgery or carotid artery repair. State and local procurement offices do not typically solicit directly for individual surgical procedures through RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB processes; when they purchase surgical services, they do so through managed healthcare contracts, employee health plan administration, or institutional healthcare services agreements rather than through procedure-specific codes. The code appears to be a medical taxonomy entry misapplied to broader healthcare service procurement.

No actionable opportunities exist under this code for vendors offering carotid artery repair services. Business development professionals should confirm that their target customers — state departments, counties, cities, school districts, and health authorities — are procuring under different UNSPSC codes (likely higher-tier healthcare service families or institutional care management codes) when they seek surgical or specialty medical interventions. The tagging of this Commodity code to general healthcare administration contracts suggests data quality issues in the underlying procurement system rather than genuine demand for this specific procedure at the state and local level.