UNSPSC 85513850: Dilation of right external iliac artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to dilation of right external iliac artery, percutaneous endoscopic 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 047H4ZZ

UNSPSC 85513850 Dilation of right external iliac artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity in the source material. The code nominally describes a specific cardiovascular surgical procedure, yet the six most-recent opportunities posted under this classification span independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational health surveillance services, specialty medical care for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve percutaneous endoscopic dilation of the external iliac artery. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding by issuing bodies or a data alignment issue in the underlying procurement database; the code shows no relevant recent activity for firms positioned to deliver vascular intervention services to state and local governments.

The geographic and issuing-body spread of the six opportunities is wide — City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona), City of Long Beach (California), Washington State Department of Transportation (Washington), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and County of Santa Clara Health System (California) — but these are not pursuing the service the code nominally describes. Until state and local procurement offices correct their coding practices or the code itself is revised to reflect actual buying patterns, firms should treat this category as inactive for their business development purposes and pursue specific opportunities by their concrete service scope rather than relying on UNSPSC alignment.