UNSPSC 85521039: Replacement of right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to replacement of 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 05RR0KZ

UNSPSC 85521039 Replacement of right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The code's clinical surgical procedure description does not match the state and local opportunities tagged to it in the recent record set. The opportunities posted under this code — independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical procedure carve-out benefits for municipal employees (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth (Harris County), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (Santa Clara County Health System) — are administrative healthcare procurement, benefits management, and staffing activities that bear no operational relationship to orthopedic vascular surgery or tissue grafting. This coding mismatch suggests either a data quality issue in the UNSPSC tagging at the source or a systemic misalignment between the code's clinical definition and the state and local procurement systems using it.

The recent opportunities instead reflect municipal, county, and regional health system purchasing of managed healthcare services, employee benefits administration, medical personnel provisioning, and occupational health compliance support. No state or local procurement body has solicited the replacement of a right vertebral vein with nonautologous tissue substitute under this code in the recent record window. Practitioners pursuing work under this code should verify the actual UNSPSC codes assigned by specific issuing bodies before targeting healthcare service RFPs, as the current tagging does not support reliable identification of relevant opportunities.