UNSPSC 85504142: Drainage of left hand artery with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left hand artery with drainage 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 039F00Z

UNSPSC 85504142 Drainage of left hand artery with drainage device, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominal scope — a specific surgical procedure on a left-hand artery — does not match the medical services state and local governments are actually soliciting under this classification. Recent opportunities tagged to this code include independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, surgical carve-out networks for municipal employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, emergency and specialty care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management administration, and temporary ancillary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve arterial drainage procedures or surgical implantation of drainage devices.

The mismatch suggests either a coding error in the state and local procurement systems posting these opportunities or that the code has been repurposed in local taxonomy to span a broader family of medical services procurement rather than naming a discrete procedure. Given the divergence between the code's literal name and the actual work being bought, firms pursuing this code should verify the specific scope of work in each RFP, RFQ, or IFB rather than relying on the code descriptor alone. The geographic spread of recent activity spans Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Florida (Collier County), and Texas (Harris County), with issuing bodies including city retirement offices, county health systems, state transportation departments, and county probation departments — indicating ad hoc tagging rather than a coherent procurement category.