UNSPSC 85491104: Excision of pulmonary trunk, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of pulmonary trunk, 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 02BP0ZZ

UNSPSC 85491104 Excision of pulmonary trunk, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure for excision of the pulmonary trunk via open surgical approach—a clinical intervention, not a good or service that state and local governments procure as standalone line items. The recent opportunities tagged under this code involve inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support for peer workers, and fire department medical direction—none of which match the code's clinical procedure scope. State and local procurement offices have mislabeled these opportunities under a code that describes a specific surgical technique rather than the healthcare administration, managed care, or occupational health services actually being solicited.

No substantive recent activity aligns with the code's stated scope. The opportunities present in the source reflect contracting for healthcare delivery infrastructure, clinical management services, and medical direction oversight, which belong in different UNSPSC codes governing healthcare and social services administration. If your firm specializes in surgical procedure supplies, operating room setup, or clinical outcome tracking tied to cardiothoracic procedures, this code classification signal is not reliable for identifying actual government buying demand. Monitor whether issuing bodies correct the code assignment over time, but the current tagging indicates either data-entry error or misalignment between the taxonomy and the services being acquired.