UNSPSC 85494351: Replacement of aortic valve with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to replacement of aortic valve with nonautologous tissue 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 02RF4KZ

UNSPSC 85494351 Replacement of aortic valve with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent solicitations tagged to it—independent medical evaluations for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out networks, occupational health surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary clinical staffing—do not align with procurement of aortic valve replacement services or the procedural supplies and devices such a code would denote. State and local health systems and counties are buying health administration and staffing services under this code tag rather than the discrete clinical procedure it names, suggesting either a taxonomy misclassification in the source data or a systematic mismatch between how state and local procurement offices code healthcare requests and the UNSPSC structure itself.

The issuing bodies in the tagged opportunities span multiple jurisdictions: the City of Phoenix (disability pension medical evaluations), City of Long Beach (surgical network benefits), Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational health), Harris County (juvenile detention healthcare), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management), and Santa Clara County (temporary clinical staffing). Geographic concentration is light across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington; no single state or repeat buyer pattern emerges from the sample. Because the opportunities do not address the code's actual scope, firms evaluating whether to pursue work under UNSPSC 85494351 should treat recent activity as a signal of taxonomy noise rather than a reliable guide to the market itself and pursue alternative classification codes or direct market research into state and local surgical supply and medical device procurement channels.