UNSPSC 85513913: Destruction of left colic artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left colic 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 04574ZZ

UNSPSC 85513913 Destruction of left colic artery, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code represents a highly specific surgical procedure with clinical CPT/ICD-10 semantics; the six recent opportunities posted across state and local issuing bodies—including the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County, and Santa Clara County Health System—are tagged to this code but address entirely different procurement needs: independent medical evaluation services for disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve the specific arterial destruction procedure the code nominally describes.

The mismatch suggests either miscoding by the issuing jurisdictions or an upstream taxonomy alignment problem. State and local procurement in medical and health services generally clusters around benefits administration, staffing, network management, and occupational health rather than individual procedure codes. If your firm provides services in occupational medicine surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, medical staffing networks, or disability evaluation administration, the recent opportunities cited above warrant evaluation on their individual merits; however, pursuing work based on this code's nominal definition would be strategically misaligned with actual buying activity in the marketplace.