UNSPSC 85534202: Restriction of esophageal vein with intraluminal device, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to restriction of esophageal vein with intraluminal device, 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 06V33DZ

UNSPSC 85534202 Restriction of esophageal vein with intraluminal device, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no substantive recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The six most recent opportunities posted under this code—spanning Phoenix, Long Beach, Washington State, Harris County, Collier County, and Santa Clara County—are instead soliciting independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these opportunities involve esophageal vein procedures, intraluminal devices, or the clinical intervention the code describes. The mismatch suggests the code has been misapplied to these procurements or the tagging reflects a data-entry error rather than genuine demand for the specific procedure named in the Commodity definition.

State and local procurement activity under this code does not warrant pursuit at present. The issuing bodies—city retirement offices, municipal employee benefits divisions, state transportation departments, county juvenile justice systems, county benefits consortiums, and county health systems—are buying administrative and operational health-system services, not interventional medical devices or procedures. No representative solicitation for esophageal vein restriction services appears in the recent opportunities block, and the geographic spread across Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida reflects general health-care procurement activity rather than any concentration of demand for the specific device or procedure this code nominally describes.