UNSPSC 85511313: Release left colic artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release left colic artery, open 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 04N70ZZ

UNSPSC 85511313 "Release left colic artery, open approach" is a Commodity code that maps to surgical procedure classification but shows no meaningful recent state and local procurement activity. The five most-recent opportunities in the source—inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county jail, pharmacy benefit management for a county employee health plan, virtual primary and urgent care for a county workforce, peer support services for mental health workers, and fire department medical director services—bear no relationship to the code's nominal surgical scope. These solicitations represent healthcare administration, benefits management, clinical services contracting, and medical direction work that fall entirely outside the vascular surgical procedures this code nominally describes. State and local procurement does not systematically buy surgical procedures through RFP or IFB; hospitals and health systems typically credential and contract with individual surgeons or surgical groups through different channels than goods-and-services procurement.

The code shows no recent activity aligned with its taxonomy definition and does not warrant pursuit under this UNSPSC classification. A business development professional should verify whether the intended target is one of the healthcare contracting categories that actually appear in state and local opportunities—such as codes covering healthcare staffing, medical services management, pharmaceutical benefits administration, or occupational health services—rather than surgical procedure codes designed for hospital operating-room supply chain or clinical-outcome tracking.