UNSPSC 85511470: Excision of inferior mesenteric artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of inferior mesenteric 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 04BB0ZZ

UNSPSC 85511470, Excision of inferior mesenteric artery, open approach, is a Commodity code that describes a specific surgical procedure, yet recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code do not align with procedural surgical services. Instead, the opportunities posted show state and local governments buying occupational and disability medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and surgical benefit carve-out programs—none of which match the code's nominal scope of a specific arterial excision procedure. The mismatch indicates that this code shows little relevant recent activity for firms pursuing state and local contracts in the actual surgical-procedure domain the code name describes.

The six opportunities in the dataset span Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington jurisdictions, including the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (independent medical evaluations for public safety disability determinations), City of Long Beach (surgical carve-out benefit management for city employees), Washington State Department of Transportation ferries division (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary health professional staffing). None of these solicitations seek or reference excision of inferior mesenteric artery services or related surgical procedures. The disconnect between the code designation and the actual procurement activity suggests that the code is not being used to tag state and local surgical procedure procurement, or that the opportunities in the dataset were miscoded at the point of submission.