UNSPSC 85513124: Drainage of middle colic artery with drainage device, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of middle colic artery with drainage device, percutaneous 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 049830Z

UNSPSC 85513124 Drainage of middle colic artery with drainage device, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, surgical procedure carve-out networks, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth — none of which involve the specific interventional radiological or surgical procedure named in the code itself. The mismatch between the code's technical scope (a vascular drainage procedure) and the actual work being solicited suggests either systematic miscoding by the posting agencies or that this code does not meaningfully align with state and local government purchasing patterns.

State and local procurement activity under codes nominally related to specialized medical procedures rarely concentrates on individual clinical interventions. State health systems, county health departments, school districts, and municipal employee benefits offices typically purchase broader categories of health services — managed care, staffing, pharmacy benefits, employee health screening, or facility-based occupational health programs — rather than discrete procedural services. When medical services are competitively bid at the state and local level, the RFP or RFQ usually names the delivering organization (a health system, hospital network, or clinical provider), the covered population (employees, retirees, detainees, or ferry workers), and the service framework (baseline examinations, specialty consultations, preventive screening) rather than specific Current Procedural Terminology or UNSPSC procedure codes. Firms pursuing work in occupational health, employee benefits management, or public health systems should track broader Family and Class codes focused on health services administration, managed care networks, and clinical staffing rather than this Commodity code.