UNSPSC 85523534: Excision of right hand vein, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right 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 05BG3ZZ

UNSPSC 85523534 Excision of right hand vein, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the state and local procurement activity currently being solicited under it. The code itself describes a specific surgical procedure — removal of a vein from the right hand using a minimally invasive technique — but the recent opportunities tagged to this code span occupational medical surveillance, independent disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-outs for municipal employee health plans, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth. None of these services involve the performance of surgical procedures or the delivery of acute clinical care as the code nominally describes. The mismatch suggests either a systematic categorization error in the procurement system or an opportunistic tagging of health-care-adjacent solicitations to a clinical procedure code.

The issuing bodies using this code include state transportation departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county human resources and benefits offices (Collier County, Santa Clara County, City of Long Beach), county health systems and juvenile probation departments (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), and municipal retirement offices (City of Phoenix). Geographic activity spans Washington, Florida, California, Arizona, and Texas. Representative recent opportunities include the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP due October 9, 2026, the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP due October 16, 2026, and the County of Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing qualification vehicle due October 7, 2026. Given the systematic misalignment between the code and the work actually being solicited, firms should treat this code as a search artifact rather than a reliable signal of demand for perioperative or vascular surgical services.