UNSPSC 85503700: Principal arteries upper body, percutaneous approach

This class includes one or more of 17 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the principal arteries of the upper body with percutaneous approach. These surgical interventions or procedures are listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 PCS under code 03.

UNSPSC 85503700 Principal arteries upper body, percutaneous approach is a Class code that shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes percutaneous interventional procedures on upper-body arterial systems — a clinical service classification that belongs in a medical taxonomy rather than a procurement framework. The recent opportunities tagged to this code span inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management (PBM) administration, virtual primary and urgent care delivery, peer support services for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical director services — none of which involve percutaneous arterial procedures or match the code's stated scope. This systematic mismatch indicates that the code either has been misapplied by issuing bodies or does not map to services state and local governments are currently buying.

The tagged opportunities originate from a mix of issuing bodies: a county consolidated government (Columbus, Georgia), two Florida county boards of commissioners (Collier and Monroe), a California county health department (San Mateo), and a city fire department (Santa Monica). These solicitations—an RFP for prison medical and pharmacy services (due May 15, 2026), an RFP for pharmacy benefit management serving county employees (due April 9, 2026), an RFP for virtual primary and urgent care (due April 16, 2026), an RFP for peer support services under California's Mental Health Services Act (due July 2, 2025), and an RFP for fire department medical director services (due October 16, 2025)—represent administrative healthcare procurement and managed-care contracting rather than procedural clinical services. The code shows no recent activity grounded in its nominal scope; pursuit under this code is not recommended without clarification from the issuing body that a percutaneous arterial procedure or related diagnostic service is actually being procured.