UNSPSC 85492064: Bypass thoracic aorta to right pulmonary artery with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass thoracic aorta to right pulmonary artery with synthetic substitute, 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 021W4JQ

UNSPSC 85492064 Bypass thoracic aorta to right pulmonary artery with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code. The code shows little relevant recent activity under its stated scope — no recent state and local opportunities solicited the specific surgical procedure named in the code. Instead, the opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical procedure carve-out benefits for health plans, and temporary health professional staffing services. These opportunities span medical record review and summarization, occupational health examinations aligned with state regulatory requirements, specialty drug management and claims processing, Centers of Excellence network management for elective procedures, and ancillary clinical staffing. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited indicates that state and local procurement systems have applied this code inconsistently or as a catch-all administrative category rather than as a marker for thoracic aortic bypass procedures themselves.

The issuing bodies include city retirement offices (Phoenix), municipal health systems (Long Beach, Santa Clara County), state transportation departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county juvenile probation agencies (Harris County), and county boards of commissioners (Collier County). Recent opportunities span Arizona, California, Washington, Florida, and Texas. Representative solicitations include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services with a maximum contract value of $750,000 over five years (due October 16, 2026), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry terminal locations (due October 9, 2026), the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical procedure carve-out benefits through Centers of Excellence (due October 7, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's RFQ for temporary health professional staffing in ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026). The code does not represent a coherent procurement category and warrants reassessment or correction at the taxonomy level.