UNSPSC 85471929: Bypass cerebral ventricle to bone marrow with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass cerebral ventricle to bone marrow with nonautologous tissue substitute, 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 00163K8

UNSPSC 85471929 Bypass cerebral ventricle to bone marrow with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that sits in the healthcare clinical procedures taxonomy; however, the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show little alignment with the code's nominal scope. Instead, the opportunities reflect broader occupational health, retirement medical services, employee benefits administration, and temporary clinical staffing — none of which involve neurosurgical ventricular-bypass procedures or bone marrow transplantation. The City of Phoenix Retirement Office is soliciting independent medical evaluation services for disability benefit determinations under Arizona's Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, the Washington State Department of Transportation is procuring occupational medical surveillance services for ferry workers, the City of Long Beach is requesting surgical carve-out benefit management for its employee health plan, and the County of Santa Clara Health System is establishing a qualified vendor pool for temporary ancillary health professional staffing. This code's application to state and local procurement appears misaligned with its clinical descriptor, and no recent solicitations directly address the neurosurgical or bone marrow procedures the code nominally covers.

The issuing bodies represent municipal retirement offices, state transportation agencies, city benefits administrators, and county health systems across Arizona, Washington, California, and Florida. Because the code's nominal scope does not match the actual work being solicited, geographic concentration and work-type patterns are not decision-relevant. Firms evaluating this code should verify whether the code assignment reflects a data-classification error or whether state and local bodies are using it for administrative healthcare contracting outside its clinical intent. No recent solicitations posted under this code target the neurosurgical or tissue-substitute procedures the code name describes.