UNSPSC 85504036: Repair right ulnar artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to repair right ulnar artery, 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 03Q90ZZ

UNSPSC 85504036 Repair right ulnar artery, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with state and local government procurement activity. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure for vascular repair, but the recent opportunities tagged under it reflect administrative and occupational health services rather than surgical interventions on arterial anatomy. The City of Phoenix Retirement Office is soliciting independent medical evaluation services for disability determinations; the City of Long Beach is requesting proposals for surgical procedure carve-out benefit management through Centers of Excellence; the Washington State Department of Transportation is procuring occupational medical surveillance services; Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is issuing an RFI for emergency and specialty medical services for youth in custody; Collier County is requesting pharmacy benefit management services; and Santa Clara Health System is establishing a qualified vendor pool for temporary ancillary health professional staffing. None of these opportunities involve the surgical repair of an ulnar artery or related vascular procedures. The code shows no current relevance to state and local contracting activity.

The mismatch between the Commodity code's clinical descriptor and the administrative and occupational health services that appear in recent state and local solicitations suggests either a taxonomy classification error or an artifact of how issuing bodies have tagged procurement records. Business development professionals should not pursue opportunities under this code based on vascular surgery capability; the code does not currently reflect meaningful state and local procurement for the service it nominally describes.