UNSPSC 85503223: Restriction of right external carotid artery with bioactive intraluminal device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to restriction of right external carotid artery with bioactive intraluminal device, percutaneous endoscopic 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 03VM4BZ

UNSPSC 85503223 Restriction of right external carotid artery with bioactive intraluminal device, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity posted under its designation. The code nominally describes a highly specialized cardiovascular surgical procedure, yet the recent opportunities tagged to it reflect occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, disability benefit medical evaluations, and surgical benefit carve-outs for employee health plans—none involving carotid artery intervention or the procedural specification implied by the code name. This mismatch suggests either a data-entry or classification error in the source materials or a jurisdictional practice of applying procedure-specific clinical codes to administrative and operational health services without regard to clinical taxonomy alignment.

The recent opportunities do reflect operational health services procurement across multiple issuing bodies: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (disability medical evaluations), the City of Long Beach (employee surgical benefit programs), Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty care for detained youth), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary clinical staffing). Activity is concentrated in California, Arizona, Washington, and Texas. The code shows no recent solicitation for the carotid artery procedure or device specified in its name, and no meaningful market activity appears available for business development under this code designation.