UNSPSC 85471824: Bypass cerebral ventricle to blood vessel with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass cerebral ventricle to blood vessel with nonautologous tissue substitute, open 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 00160K3

UNSPSC 85471824 Bypass cerebral ventricle to blood vessel with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure—a neurosurgical bypass implantation—but the six recent state and local opportunities posted under this code are unrelated to neurosurgical implants or medical devices. Instead, they cover occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-out program management, pharmacy benefit management, specialty medical provider networks, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve the procurement or implantation of neurosurgical devices or equipment. The mismatch between the code's scope and the work actually being tagged suggests either a data-classification anomaly in the state and local procurement systems issuing these opportunities or a misalignment in how the code has been applied to health services contracting more broadly.

The recent activity is geographically distributed across Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (Long Beach and Santa Clara County), Washington State (Department of Transportation), and Florida (Collier County and Harris County, Texas), with no single jurisdiction or state dominating. The issuing bodies are mixed across city governments, county health systems, state transportation agencies, and county probation departments. Given the classification inconsistency, pursuit decisions under this code should rely on direct opportunity review rather than code-level trend analysis—the code itself does not currently reflect a coherent procurement category in state and local markets.