UNSPSC 85471839: Bypass spinal canal to pleural cavity with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass spinal canal to pleural cavity 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 001U0K4

UNSPSC 85471839 "Bypass spinal canal to pleural cavity with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach" is a Commodity code, but it shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains six recent opportunities posted between July and September 2026, none of which involve spinal bypass surgery or the anatomical procedure the code describes. Instead, the opportunities span occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-out programs, and emergency medical services for youth in custody. These are administrative health services, staffing arrangements, and benefits management functions—not surgical procedures or implantable devices. The mismatch suggests either tagging error in the source data or that this code does not currently reflect active state and local procurement for the specific procedure it nominally covers.

The recent activity shows issuing bodies include county retirement offices, city health plan administrators, state transportation departments, county juvenile probation departments, county boards of commissioners, and county health systems. Geographic reach spans Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington State (WSDOT), Texas (Harris County), and Florida (Collier County). Representative opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (response due October 16, 2026, $750,000 maximum over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry system locations (response due October 9, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's request to establish a qualified vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing across thirteen clinical categories (response due October 7, 2026, no guaranteed volume). None of these align with the spinal surgical procedure the code nominally describes.