UNSPSC 85511473: Excision of middle colic artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of middle 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 04B80ZZ

UNSPSC 85511473 Excision of middle colic artery, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local opportunities currently tagged under it. The recent solicitations in the source—inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction—involve healthcare administration, service delivery, and clinical oversight, not surgical procedures or vascular intervention. The code itself names a specific surgical procedure (open excision of the middle colic artery), yet none of the posted opportunities solicit that service or anything related to operative vascular surgery. This mismatch suggests either a tagging error in the underlying procurement database or that the code is being used as a catch-all for healthcare-related contracts despite its narrow clinical focus.

The recent opportunities do reveal a pattern of healthcare service procurement across county and municipal issuing bodies in Florida (Collier County, Monroe County) and Georgia (Columbus Consolidated Government / Muscogee County), with outlying activity in California (San Mateo County) and California cities (Santa Monica Fire Department). However, because none of these opportunities relate to the actual commodity the code describes, this code shows little relevant recent activity for vendors positioned to deliver the surgical service named in the UNSPSC taxonomy.