UNSPSC 85515000: Principal arteries lower body, open approach

This class includes one or more of 17 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the principal arteries of the lower body with open approach. These surgical interventions or procedures are listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 PCS under code 04.

UNSPSC 85515000 Principal arteries lower body, open approach is a Class code that does not map to meaningful state and local procurement activity based on recent solicitation records. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure on lower-body arterial systems, but the recent opportunities tagged under it involve jail and prison medical services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary care and urgent care services, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical director services — none of which involve vascular surgery or arterial procedures. State and local governments do not appear to be sourcing under this code for the work the code's name implies, and the mismatch between the code label and the actual solicitations suggests either misclassification in the source data or a fundamental disconnect between the taxonomy and how issuing bodies are using it for healthcare procurement.

The five most recent opportunities in the source span county-level healthcare administration and clinical management rather than surgical or procedural services. Muscogee County Prison (Columbus, Georgia) issued an RFP in April 2026 for comprehensive inmate medical and pharmacy services; Collier County, Florida issued an RFP for pharmacy benefit management services covering approximately 7,200 members with historical spending around $8.7 million annually; Monroe County, Florida issued an RFP for virtual primary and urgent care services for approximately 2,300 county members; San Mateo County, California issued an RFP for peer support services for behavioral health workers; and Santa Monica Fire Department issued an RFP for a fire department medical director. These opportunities reflect routine healthcare contracting for detention facilities, employee and retiree benefit management, and clinical administration — not the arterial-surgery scope the code's name describes. Without recent state and local solicitations that actually involve lower-body arterial procedures or related vascular interventions, the code shows no relevant procurement signal for vendors in that medical specialty.