UNSPSC 85523272: Release right axillary vein, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release right axillary vein, 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 05N70ZZ

UNSPSC 85523272 Release right axillary vein, open approach is a Commodity code showing minimal alignment between its nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure—and the state and local contracting activity actually tagged under it. The recent opportunities posted under this code do not involve axillary vein procedures; instead they reflect a broad and divergent set of medical services procurement, including independent disability medical evaluations, occupational health surveillance, specialty surgical network carve-outs for government employee benefits, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, emergency and specialty care for youth in custody, and medical record management. This mismatch suggests either systematic coding misalignment in state and local procurement systems or that the code has been repurposed administratively to capture medical service procurement more broadly. The issuing bodies include municipal retirement systems, city employee benefits programs, state transportation agencies, county health systems, county juvenile justice departments, and county benefits consortia—a wide cross-section of state and local healthcare and human services administration rather than facility-based surgical practice.

Recent activity appears in Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office, RFP RTMRFP26001 for independent medical evaluation services, proposals due October 16, 2026), California (City of Long Beach, RFP HR26753 for surgical and oncology procedure carve-out benefits, proposals due October 7, 2026; County of Santa Clara Health System, RFSQHHSFY270052 for temporary health professional staffing across multiple ancillary clinical categories, proposals due October 7, 2026), Washington State (WSDOT Washington State Ferries, RFP RFP20260825 for occupational medical surveillance, proposals due October 9, 2026), Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, RFI 071626BNM for emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, responses due September 25, 2026), and Florida (Collier County Board of County Commissioners, RFP 25-8414 for pharmacy benefit management services, proposals due April 9, 2026). The code shows no pattern of concentrated repeat buying and no geographic concentration—if coding accuracy reflects actual procurement intent, this code is not a reliable indicator of opportunity flow in any particular jurisdiction or service line.