UNSPSC 85621321: Repair right carotid body, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to repair right carotid body, 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 0GQ74ZZ

UNSPSC 85621321 Repair right carotid body, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows no recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal clinical scope. The six recent opportunities posted under this code—independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical benefit carve-outs for employee health plans (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara Health System)—represent general healthcare administration, benefits management, and occupational health contracting rather than specific surgical procedures on the carotid body. The mismatch between the code's highly specialized clinical nomenclature and the broad healthcare service categories being solicited suggests either systematic miscoding by state and local procurement offices or that this code does not reflect how government health systems and HR departments actually classify their buying.

No specific state or local government has posted a solicitation for carotid body repair services, percutaneous endoscopic or otherwise, under this code or in the recent opportunities block. The geographic spread of the six unrelated opportunities spans Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, but these reflect general government healthcare procurement rather than a market for the procedure named in the code. Buyers looking to pursue work under UNSPSC 85621321 should verify whether state and local procurement offices use this code for actual surgical procedure contracting, or whether healthcare-related opportunities are consistently miscoded and should be tracked under higher-level healthcare service families instead.