UNSPSC 85503131: Destruction of right temporal artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction 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 035S3ZZ

UNSPSC 85503131 Destruction of right temporal artery, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect the actual work being solicited under it in recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure—bears no meaningful relationship to the six recent opportunities posted across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Instead, those solicitations are purchasing occupational medical surveillance services, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty medical services for detained youth. The mismatch between the UNSPSC code descriptor and the real-world procurement need suggests either a data-entry error in the state and local systems or a categorical misclassification that renders the code unreliable as a procurement signal.

The issuing bodies span diverse public sectors: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (public employee pension administration), City of Long Beach (municipal employee health benefits), Washington State Department of Transportation ferries division (occupational health), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (detention healthcare), Collier County Human Resources and Health Care Consortium (county employee benefits), and County of Santa Clara Health System (public hospital temporary staffing). No vendor repeatedly appears across these opportunities, and the geographic spread—Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington—does not concentrate in any single region. Given the code's apparent misclassification at the commodity level and the complete divergence between the code's stated procedure and actual buying activity, this code merits exclusion from active pursuit pipelines until its taxonomy assignment is corrected at the source.