UNSPSC 85511379: Occlusion of gastric artery with intraluminal device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of gastric artery with intraluminal device, 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 04L20DZ

UNSPSC 85511379, Occlusion of gastric artery with intraluminal device, open approach, is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work actually being solicited under it in recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope describes a clinical procedure for vascular intervention, yet the recent opportunities tagged to it span occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-out networks, youth detention medical services, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve gastric artery occlusion or intraluminal devices. This mismatch signals either a classification error in the source data or a systematic misalignment between the code taxonomy and the procuring agencies' tagging practices, rendering the code unreliable as a predictor of actual purchasing patterns.

The geographic and issuing-body distribution of the recent opportunities—the City of Phoenix, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County, and Santa Clara County Health System—indicates municipal and county health administration, transportation workforce health, and county human resources functions are driving activity. However, because none of these opportunities are substantively related to the gastric artery intervention the code names, the code provides no actionable intelligence for business development targeting state and local procurement. Vendors in interventional radiology, vascular surgery devices, or hospital procedure supplies should not rely on this code to identify relevant opportunities; the mismatch suggests the code is not an effective filtering mechanism for this category of spend.