UNSPSC 85503428: Dilation of right temporal artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to dilation of right temporal artery, 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 037S4ZZ

UNSPSC 85503428 Dilation of right temporal artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not describe work state and local governments are actually procuring. The code nominally refers to a specific surgical procedure; however, the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under this code span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, surgical center-of-excellence networks, and temporary clinical staffing. These are administrative healthcare services, benefits management, and workforce procurement — none involving temporal artery dilation or the vascular procedures the code name suggests. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited indicates either miscoding in the state and local procurement systems or a classification error in the underlying taxonomy assignment.

The issuing bodies include state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), counties (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, County of Santa Clara), and cities (City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach). Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations (due October 16, 2026, maximum contract value $750,000 over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance across 14 Washington State ferry locations (due October 9, 2026), the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical center-of-excellence networks managing knee, hip, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology procedures (due October 7, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's non-exclusive pool for temporary ancillary clinical staffing (due October 7, 2026). Geographic activity spans Washington, Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Given the fundamental misalignment between the code's procedural name and the administrative healthcare services actually being procured, this code does not represent a coherent procurement family and should not serve as a targeting basis.