UNSPSC 85511514: Drainage of left common iliac artery with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left common iliac artery with drainage 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 049D00Z

UNSPSC 85511514 "Drainage of left common iliac artery with drainage device, open approach" is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work state and local governments are actually soliciting under this classification. The recent opportunities posted against this code bear no meaningful relationship to vascular surgical procedures; instead, they describe occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, medical examinations for retirement disability determinations, temporary clinical staffing, and surgical procedure carve-out benefits for government employee health plans. The code's nominal scope — a specific interventional vascular drainage technique — appears misaligned with how state and local procurement offices are using it in practice, suggesting either systematic miscoding or use of the UNSPSC taxonomy in a manner divorced from its intended medical procedure classification.

No recent opportunities in the source material are purchasing the service the code nominally describes. State and local issuers across Arizona, Florida, California, and Washington are posting health care administration and staffing work under this code, but none involve drainage devices, vascular interventions, or open surgical approaches to the iliac vasculature. The City of Phoenix Retirement Office (independent medical evaluation services), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management), the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary clinical staffing), and the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance) represent the actual buying pattern, but their scopes do not map to the code's stated commodity definition. If your firm pursues health care procurement with state and local bodies, verify the actual work scope before relying on this code for qualification or capability planning, as the classification does not reflect current market activity.