UNSPSC 85503010: Occlusion of right temporal artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of right temporal 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 03LS3ZZ

UNSPSC 85503010 Occlusion of right temporal artery, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not map to state and local government procurement activity. The code describes a specific medical procedure — percutaneous arterial occlusion — and the recent opportunities posted under it reflect no alignment with that clinical intervention. Instead, the opportunities solicited are for administrative and occupational health services: independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out program administration, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty care coordination for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these services involve performing or managing occlusion procedures on temporal arteries, whether percutaneous or otherwise. The source contains no evidence of state and local procurement for the procedure itself.

State and local procurement activity under this code shows no relevant recent opportunities. The six postings retrieved appear to represent a systematic miscoding issue rather than legitimate opportunities for vascular interventional services, which would not typically fall within state and local government purchasing patterns for clinical procedures, as such services are ordinarily provided through direct hospital employment, managed-care contracts, or health plan network agreements rather than standalone solicitations. Any vendor evaluating this code should verify its applicability to their service line and consider whether the opportunities reflect a broader data-quality issue within the state or local opportunity source.