UNSPSC 85502757: Destruction of left temporal artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left temporal 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 035T0ZZ

UNSPSC 85502757 Destruction of left temporal artery, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure with extremely narrow clinical specificity, but the five most recent opportunities tagged under this code span inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county prison, pharmacy benefit management for a county health consortium, virtual primary and urgent care services for county employees, peer support services for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical director services—none of which involve destruction of a temporal artery or match the code's surgical scope. The mismatch between the code's stated definition and the actual goods or services being solicited suggests either systematic miscoding in the source data or a fundamental misalignment between the UNSPSC taxonomy as applied and the work state and local governments are actually buying under this number. State and local procurement professionals should treat this code as inactive for practical contracting purposes and verify any future tagging against the actual scope of work before pursuing opportunities labeled with this number.