UNSPSC 85503633: Occlusion of upper artery with extraluminal device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of upper artery with extraluminal device, open 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 03LY0CZ

UNSPSC 85503633 Occlusion of upper artery with extraluminal device, open approach is a Commodity code whose nominal scope—a specific cardiovascular surgical procedure—does not align with recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The code shows no relevant solicitations for the medical device or procedural service it describes. Instead, the recent opportunities filed under this code span unrelated healthcare services: inmate medical and pharmacy management for county correctional facilities, pharmacy benefit administration for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care for county members, peer support services for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction. These solicitations reflect state and local healthcare purchasing across corrections, employee benefits, public health, and emergency services—categories fundamentally distinct from interventional cardiovascular devices or procedures and suggesting a coding or tagging error in the source data rather than genuine procurement activity under the stated Commodity code.

No meaningful market signal exists for UNSPSC 85503633 in state and local procurement. The code warrants exclusion from active pursuit until such time as opportunities tagged with it reflect actual procurement of occlusion devices or related cardiovascular services. Business development efforts should redirect toward the specific healthcare service codes these opportunities should have been tagged under—employee benefits administration, corrections health services, emergency medical services, or behavioral health—rather than attempting to build a strategy around a Commodity code whose recent activity is entirely misaligned with its defined scope.