UNSPSC 85504643: Supplement left ulnar artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left ulnar artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous 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 03UA3KZ

UNSPSC 85504643 Supplement left ulnar artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work state and local governments are actually buying under this classification. The recent solicitations tagged with this code show no alignment with the code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure involving vascular reconstruction—and instead cover occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, surgical care networks, and temporary health professional staffing for hospital systems. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding by issuing bodies or that the code has been repurposed at the procurement point of entry to flag health and medical administration services broadly rather than procedural interventions. No recent opportunities explicitly solicit the vascular surgical services the code nominally describes.

The source provides no evidence of state and local procurement activity aligned with the procedural scope of UNSPSC 85504643. The six recent opportunities span Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office, independent medical evaluations), California (City of Long Beach surgical care networks, County of Santa Clara Health System temporary staffing), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation occupational medical surveillance), Florida (Collier County pharmacy benefit management), and Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department youth detention healthcare), but none address the specific surgical procedure the Commodity code names. This code warrants review for misuse or reclassification before allocating business development resources to pursue work under it.