UNSPSC 85515533: Excision of left posterior tibial artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left posterior tibial artery, 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 04BS0ZZ

UNSPSC 85515533, Excision of left posterior tibial artery, open approach, is a Commodity code that shows minimal relevance to recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure—does not align with the work actually being solicited under it. Recent state and local opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, disability medical record summary and independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, health professional staffing, and surgical benefit carve-out programs—none of which involve the vascular surgery procedure the code names. The issuing bodies include city retirement offices, state departments of transportation, county health systems, county commissioners' offices, and county juvenile probation departments, spanning Arizona, Washington, California, and Florida. The code appears to suffer from a tagging or taxonomy mismatch in the source data rather than representing a genuine procurement category for state and local government contracting.

The recent opportunities on file show no direct procurement of the surgical procedure named in the code. The Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP (due October 9, 2026) targets licensed occupational-medicine physicians for baseline and periodic examinations across 14 ferry locations; the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's disability medical evaluation RFP (due October 16, 2026) seeks comprehensive medical record summary and independent examination coordination for approximately 75 annual pension disability applications; and the County of Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing vehicle (due October 7, 2026) establishes a qualified-vendor pool for ancillary clinical roles including audiology, diagnostic imaging, and surgical/operating room support. Given the consistent mismatch between the code's procedural scope and the health-administration, occupational-medicine, and staffing work being actually solicited, this code does not represent a viable procurement category for vendors pursuing state and local opportunities in vascular surgery or related clinical services.