UNSPSC 85504947: Supplement right ulnar artery with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement right ulnar artery with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic 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 03U94JZ

UNSPSC 85504947 Supplement right ulnar artery with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code describes a specific surgical procedure and does not align with the actual work state and local governments are buying under this classification.

The recent opportunities tagged to this code reflect a fundamental mismatch between the code's clinical procedure scope and the services actually being solicited: disability medical evaluation services (City of Phoenix), surgical benefit carve-out program administration (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), youth detention healthcare services (Harris County), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara). These opportunities span medical administration, benefits management, staffing coordination, and occupational health — none of which involve vascular surgical procedures. The code appears to have been applied incorrectly to health services and benefits administration solicitations rather than actual surgical service procurement. State and local agencies do not routinely procure specific surgical procedures through open competitive procurement; when they do engage vendors in surgical or specialty care, it occurs through provider network agreements, managed care contracts, or hospital service partnerships rather than through commodity-level procedure codes. This code merits investigation as a data quality issue in the underlying tagging system rather than as a genuine procurement opportunity.