UNSPSC 85533496: Supplement inferior vena cava with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement inferior vena cava with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic 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 06U047Z

UNSPSC 85533496 Supplement inferior vena cava with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not correspond to the work actually being solicited under it in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged with this code span occupational medical surveillance, independent disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical carve-out benefit programs, and youth detention healthcare services — none of which involve vascular surgical procedures, tissue substitution, or the endoscopic techniques the code nominates. The UNSPSC classification appears misapplied across these solicitations, suggesting either a systematic tagging error in the underlying database or a mismatch between the code's clinical definition and how procurement systems are deploying it for health services contracting.

State and local procurement activity under this code shows geographic diversity but limited substantive connection to the code's stated scope. Recent opportunities come from the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational health), the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (disability medical evaluations), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management), Santa Clara County Health System (temporary staffing), the City of Long Beach (surgery benefit carve-outs), and Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (youth detention healthcare). Without a meaningful alignment between the code's vascular-surgery definition and the health services management, benefits administration, and staffing work appearing in the recent solicitations, this code should be considered inactive or misclassified for procurement purposes. Firms pursuing state and local health services opportunities should verify the UNSPSC coding on any RFP directly rather than relying on this code as a reliable signal for relevant work.