UNSPSC 85504655: Supplement left axillary artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left axillary 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 03U63KZ

UNSPSC 85504655 Supplement left axillary artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure — supplementing the left axillary artery with nonautologous tissue via percutaneous approach — yet the most recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code do not involve vascular surgical procedures or implantable tissue substitutes. Instead, the recent opportunities span occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, pharmacy benefit management, surgery carve-out programs for employee health plans, specialty medical services for youth in custody, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve the axillary artery procedure or tissue-substitute implants that the code nominally describes. The mismatch suggests either miscoding in the state and local procurement databases or that the code is being applied as a broad catch-all for medical services procurement regardless of the specific procedure scope.

The geographic spread of recent opportunities includes Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers), Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation RFP), California (City of Long Beach surgery benefit carve-out and County of Santa Clara temporary health professional staffing), Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department's specialty medical services RFI), and Florida (Collier County's pharmacy benefit management RFP). Given the procedural mismatch between the code's stated scope and the actual solicitation content, firms pursuing this code should verify that procurement portals are correctly coding medical-service opportunities before allocating business development resources. The recent opportunities show demand for medical administration, benefits management, and occupational health surveillance from counties, cities, and special-purpose districts, but not for the vascular surgical implant described in the code name.