UNSPSC 85505135: Excision of left ulnar artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left ulnar artery, 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 03BA4ZZ

UNSPSC 85505135, Excision of left ulnar artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that does not reflect what state and local governments are actually buying under the recent contract opportunities tagged with this code. The source contains six recent state and local solicitations tagged to this code, but none involve vascular surgery or the specific procedural service the code nominally describes. Instead, the opportunities address medical surveillance, occupational health examinations, pharmacy benefit management, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which are surgical procedures or align with the code's medical taxonomy designation. This mismatch signals either a data classification error in the procurement notices or a fundamental disconnect between the UNSPSC coding applied by the issuing bodies and the actual scope of services being procured.

The recent opportunities span multiple jurisdictions — the City of Phoenix (Arizona), the City of Long Beach (California), the Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County (Florida), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (California) — with no pattern that would establish this code as an active procurement category for surgical services. Given the absence of relevant recent activity under the code's actual scope, pursuit is not recommended without clarification of the coding error from the source agencies.