UNSPSC 85492703: Transplantation of heart, allogeneic, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transplantation of heart, allogeneic, 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 02YA0Z0

UNSPSC 85492703 Transplantation of heart, allogeneic, open approach is a Commodity code with a significant mismatch between its nominal scope and recent state and local procurement activity. The code carries the clinical description of a specific surgical procedure (allogeneic heart transplantation via open surgical approach), yet recent opportunities posted under this code span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluation, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, specialty surgical networks, and juvenile detention healthcare — none of which involves heart transplantation services or transplant surgery procurement. The City of Phoenix Retirement Office is soliciting disability medical record summary and independent medical examination services for pension benefit determinations; the Washington State Department of Transportation is requesting occupational medical surveillance for ferries workers; the City of Long Beach is procuring a surgical carve-out benefit program offering Centers of Excellence networks for knee, hip, orthopedic, shoulder, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology procedures; and Collier County is seeking pharmacy benefit management administration. State and local jurisdictions appear to be using this code as a general health services catch-all rather than as a transplant-specific taxonomy entry, and the opportunities shown reflect administrative, preventive, occupational, and specialty-network health contracting rather than transplant surgery delivery.

The issuing bodies include city retirement offices, state departments of transportation, county health systems, county boards of commissioners, and special health districts across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Given the clear mismatch between code definition and actual procurement, potential bidders should not assume this code signals a market for transplant services. Recent activity instead tracks discretionary health benefit design, occupational medicine compliance, disability evaluation support, and health professional staffing. Geographic spread covers California (Santa Clara County Health System, City of Long Beach), Arizona (City of Phoenix), Florida (Collier County), and Washington (WSDOT), but the code's misalignment with its UNSPSC definition suggests that opportunities appearing under this code may reflect data-entry or classification error rather than a coherent procurement category. For firms pursuing state and local health services work, filtering by actual scope (occupational medicine, pharmacy management, specialty networks, medical staffing) is more reliable than relying on this code's accuracy.