UNSPSC 85503348: Occlusion of right common carotid artery with extraluminal device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of right common carotid artery with extraluminal 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 03LH4CZ

UNSPSC 85503348, Occlusion of right common carotid artery with extraluminal device, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code do not procure that service. Instead, the tagged opportunities span independent medical evaluations for public safety retirement disability determinations, surgical and medical procedure carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for state ferries workers, emergency and inpatient care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary clinical staffing. None of these solicitations involve carotid artery occlusion procedures or related endovascular interventions. The mismatch between the code's procedural specificity and the scope of work being solicited suggests this code is either miscoded in the state and local procurement systems or applied too broadly to capture administrative and staffing health services unrelated to the surgical procedure the code nominally describes.

The geographic spread of the tagged opportunities spans Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida; issuing bodies include city retirement offices, municipal human resources departments, state transportation agencies, county juvenile justice systems, county commissioners' offices, and county health systems. Because the code's nominal scope does not align with the actual work being solicited, procurement professionals should verify code assignment in any opportunity matching this UNSPSC number before committing resources to pursuit. The misalignment indicates either systematic classification error within the procurement system or use of the code as a catch-all for health-related services that belong under different UNSPSC families. Confirm the actual commodity or service family the opportunity requires before building a response strategy.