UNSPSC 85612520: Occlusion of right hepatic duct, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of right hepatic duct, 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 0FL53ZZ

UNSPSC 85612520 Occlusion of right hepatic duct, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows a significant mismatch between its clinical procedure classification and actual state and local procurement activity. The recent state and local opportunities posted under this code do not involve hepatic duct procedures or interventional radiology at all. Instead, the tagged solicitations cover independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for city employees, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, specialty healthcare for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which relate to the specific hepatic intervention named in the code. State and local procurement offices appear to be using this code incorrectly to classify general medical services and benefits administration rather than the procedural specialty it nominally describes.

Activity under this code comes from city retirement offices, county human resources and health departments, state transportation agencies, and county health systems across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, but the geographic and functional spread reflects misclassification rather than genuine procurement under the code's intended scope. A business development professional evaluating this code should recognize that it is not capturing a coherent product or service line and should instead focus on the specific medical-services and health-benefits codes under which these jurisdictions are actually buying. The mismatch suggests either a data-entry error in the state and local procurement system or a misunderstanding of UNSPSC taxonomy among issuing offices, making this code unreliable for market analysis or opportunity tracking.