UNSPSC 85502760: Destruction of left external carotid artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left 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 035N0ZZ

UNSPSC 85502760 Destruction of left external carotid artery, open approach (Commodity) shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The code's clinical procedural nomenclature — a specific surgical intervention — does not align with the recent solicitations tagged under it, which span occupational medical surveillance, independent disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, health professional temporary staffing, specialty surgical networks, and emergency services for detained youth. None of these opportunities involve the specific arterial surgical procedure the code nominally describes. The mismatch between the code's title and the work actually being solicited suggests either a data entry error in the state and local procurement system tagging or a fundamental misclassification of the code itself within the UNSPSC taxonomy as applied by these issuing bodies.

The six recent opportunities identified originate from diverse jurisdictions — 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) — spanning state departments, county governments, and municipalities across Arizona, California, Texas, and Washington. The posted dates range from July 7 to September 16, 2026, with response deadlines between September 25 and October 16, 2026. These opportunities collectively represent health-system administrative services, occupational health compliance, and workforce staffing rather than surgical procedure procurement, indicating that the code as currently deployed in state and local systems does not meaningfully correlate to a actionable procurement category.