UNSPSC 85521019: Supplement right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute, 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 05UR0KZ

UNSPSC 85521019 Supplement right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that sits at the most granular level of the United Nations taxonomy, yet the recent state and local procurement activity recorded under this code shows no alignment with its nominal clinical scope. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure — implantation of a synthetic tissue substitute into a vertebral vein — but the opportunities posted under it span occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, and surgical procedure carve-out networks. None of these services involve vertebral vein implantation or match the procedure the code purports to classify.

State and local issuers applying this code include county health systems, city retirement offices, state transportation departments, county probation departments, and county commissioners' offices — a diverse mix of health-related agencies. Recent opportunities include the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP due October 9, 2026 (requiring physicians board-certified in occupational medicine to conduct examinations across 14 ferry system locations); the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP due October 16, 2026 (seeking medical record summarization and disability evaluation coordination for approximately 75 annual pension applications, with a five-year contract ceiling of $750,000); and the County of Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing RFP due October 7, 2026 (establishing a qualified vendor pool across 13 ancillary clinical categories). Geographic activity centers on Washington, Arizona, California, and Florida. The mismatch between the code's nominal procedure and the actual work solicited suggests either systematic miscoding at the issuing-body level or a data-structure error in how opportunities were tagged — either way, this code does not reliably signal procurement opportunity in surgical implants or vascular procedures.