UNSPSC 85502976: Repair right common carotid artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to repair right common carotid artery, percutaneous 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 03QH3ZZ

UNSPSC 85502976 Repair right common carotid artery, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that designates a specific surgical procedure, but recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows no alignment with the procedure itself. The six recent opportunities posted under this code include independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve carotid artery repair or percutaneous vascular intervention. The code appears to be a data-entry or classification error on the issuing bodies' side; state and local procurement sources do not document actual procurement of carotid artery repair procedures under UNSPSC 85502976.

The issuing bodies tagging this code include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, the City of Long Beach, the Washington State Department of Transportation (on behalf of Washington State Ferries), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, and the County of Santa Clara Health System — a mix of municipal retirement offices, transit authorities, county human services agencies, and regional health systems. Geographic activity spans Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. The largest documented opportunity is Collier County's RFP 25-8414 for Pharmacy Benefit Management Services, with historical annual pharmacy spending of approximately $8.7 million and a contract term of three years with two optional one-year renewals. Given the absence of relevant recent procurement activity under the code's stated scope, this code merits monitoring only if the classification error is corrected at the source; current activity does not support pursuit under the carotid repair procedure designation.