UNSPSC 85523519: Occlusion of left hand vein, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of left hand vein, percutaneous 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 05LH3ZZ

UNSPSC 85523519 Occlusion of left hand vein, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a medical procedure — an endovascular intervention — but state and local governments do not solicit this specific clinical service through UNSPSC procurement channels. The recent opportunities tagged under this code include independent disability medical evaluation services, surgical procedure carve-out management for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance, juvenile detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing; none involve percutaneous venous occlusion procedures as a procurable good or service line. This code shows a categorical mismatch between its taxonomy definition and actual state and local buying patterns.

The source contains no opportunities that genuinely reflect the scope of UNSPSC 85523519. The opportunities posted under this code are administrative and managed healthcare services — benefit plan design, staffing coordination, and occupational health programs — rather than clinical procedure codes. State and local procurement professionals should not rely on this code as a meaningful signal of market demand for percutaneous vascular interventions or as a framework for pursuing contracts in this space. The mismatch suggests either a data classification error in the underlying procurement system or a fundamental divergence between medical procedure taxonomies and state and local government contracting practice.