UNSPSC 85504763: Excision of left radial artery, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left radial artery, 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 03BC3ZZ

UNSPSC 85504763, Excision of left radial artery, percutaneous approach, is a Commodity-tier code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The six most recent opportunities posted under this code across state and local governments — spanning Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida — concern independent medical evaluation services for pension boards, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for state ferry workers, emergency and specialty medical services for youth in detention, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve excision of the left radial artery or any surgical procedure matching the code's nominal scope. The code appears to be a clinical procedure taxonomy entry that state and local procurement offices have tagged to administrative or benefits-management procurements without operational relevance to the surgical service named.

State and local governments do not solicit surgical procedures at the commodity level through RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB. When state agencies, counties, and municipalities purchase medical services, they solicit administrative management (benefits administration, surveillance programs, staffing), not individual procedures. The mismatch between this code's clinical specificity and the actual work posted under it suggests either a tagging error in the state and local procurement database or use of clinical procedure codes to classify broader healthcare management contracts. Pursuing this code would be unproductive; the procurement signal is in codes covering benefits administration, occupational health programs, and clinical staffing — not procedure-level UNSPSC entries.