UNSPSC 85515900: Principal arteries lower extremities, percutaneous approach-part C

This class includes one or more of 17 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the principal arteries of the lower extremities with percutaneous 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 85515900 Principal arteries lower extremities, percutaneous approach—part C is a Class code that shows minimal alignment with actual state and local government procurement activity. The code's nominal scope describes a specific medical procedure, yet the recent opportunities posted under this taxonomy do not reflect procurement of percutaneous interventional services or related devices; instead, issuing bodies have tagged solicitations for correctional healthcare management, pharmacy benefit administration, virtual primary care, peer support services, and fire department medical direction. The mismatch between code definition and actual buying activity suggests either systematic miscoding by state and local procurement offices or that this code is not meaningfully used to classify health services contracting at the state and local level.

The geographic and issuing-body spread across the sample reflects standard state and local healthcare procurement patterns—Georgia (Muscogee County Prison, Columbus Consolidated Government), Florida (Collier County Board of County Commissioners, Monroe County Board of County Commissioners), California (San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Santa Monica Fire Department)—but the opportunities themselves fall outside the procedure-specific scope the code nominally describes. The representative recent opportunities illustrate the coding disconnect: Muscogee County Prison's RFP No. 26-0008 (due May 15, 2026) procures comprehensive inmate medical and pharmacy services; Collier County's RFP 25-8414 (due April 9, 2026) seeks pharmacy benefit management services for county employees; Monroe County's virtual primary care RFP (due April 16, 2026) covers telephonic and video primary care and urgent care; San Mateo County's RFP 2025-007 funds peer support services for behavioral health workers; and Santa Monica Fire Department's RFP 455 seeks a physician to serve as EMS medical director. None of these opportunities involve percutaneous interventional cardiology, peripheral vascular procedures, or the clinical equipment and supplies that code 85515900 would reasonably encompass. This code appears inactive or systematically misapplied for state and local procurement purposes and merits assessment as a low-priority watch.