UNSPSC 85504045: Release left ulnar artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release left 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 03NA0ZZ

UNSPSC 85504045 Release left ulnar artery, open approach is a Commodity code with a medical procedural scope that does not align with state and local government purchasing activity. The recent opportunities posted under this code cover inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support services, and fire department medical direction — none of which involve surgical intervention on the ulnar artery or the operative procedures this code nominates. State and local procurement offices appear to have tagged these opportunities with this code in error; the code shows no relevant recent activity grounded in its actual procedural scope.

The issuing bodies across the recent opportunities include a county prison system (Muscogee County, Georgia), a county human resources and health care consortium (Collier County, Florida), a county board of commissioners (Monroe County, Florida), a county behavioral health services division (San Mateo County, California), and a municipal fire department (Santa Monica, California). These solicitations span Georgia, Florida, and California with no geographic concentration. Because the code's nominal scope bears no relationship to the work actually being solicited, opportunities posted under this code do not represent a meaningful procurement signal for vendors in vascular or orthopedic surgical services.