UNSPSC 85503838: Extirpation of matter from upper artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from upper 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 03CY4ZZ

UNSPSC 85503838, Extirpation of matter from upper artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that sees little relevant recent activity under its nominal scope in state and local procurement. The six recent opportunities tagged with this code diverge sharply from the medical procedure name: they cover independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for health plans, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty healthcare for youth in detention, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary ancillary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations describe interventional vascular procedures or endoscopic treatment. The mismatch suggests systematic miscoding in the state and local data source rather than genuine procurement activity aligned with the code's definition.

The issuing bodies span multiple jurisdiction types—a city retirement office (Phoenix), two cities (Long Beach and the Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County), a county health consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara)—across Arizona, California, Washington, Florida, and Texas. Geographic spread and representative opportunities are present in the source records, but the underlying procurement is administrative health services, benefits administration, staffing, and youth detention healthcare rather than vascular intervention. State and local procurement professionals evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for actual vascular procedure procurement and investigate whether a different UNSPSC commodity code better captures the health services and benefits administration work currently being solicited.