UNSPSC 85522500: Principal veins head and neck, percutaneous endoscopic approach-part A

This class includes one or more of 18 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the principal veins of the head and neck with percutaneous endoscopic 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 05.

UNSPSC 85522500 Principal veins head and neck, percutaneous endoscopic approach—part A is a Class code with limited relevance to recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure—does not align with the medical and healthcare services state and local governments are actually soliciting under this classification. Recent opportunities tagged to this code span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-out programs, and emergency medical services for detained youth. These solicitations fall outside the narrow procedural scope the code name suggests, indicating a potential misclassification issue or inconsistent coding practice at the issuing jurisdictions.

State and local solicitation activity under this code spans multiple issuing bodies including city retirement offices, county health departments, state transportation agencies, and county commissioners' offices across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (Solicitation RTMRFP26001, due October 16, 2026) to support disability benefit determinations for public safety personnel; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry system locations (Solicitation RFP20260825, due October 9, 2026); the County of Santa Clara Health System's qualification vehicle for temporary health professional staffing (Solicitation RFSQHHSFY270052, due October 7, 2026); and Collier County's RFP for pharmacy benefit management services covering approximately 2,400 employees (Solicitation 258414, originally due April 9, 2026). The disparity between the code's stated scope and actual buying patterns suggests this code may not reliably signal opportunities in the procedural specialty it nominally describes.