UNSPSC 85495003: Removal of external heart assist system from heart, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of external heart assist system from heart, 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 02PA0RZ

UNSPSC 85495003 Removal of external heart assist system from heart, open approach (Commodity) shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The six most-recent opportunities tagged under this code—spanning medical evaluation services for public safety pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical carve-out benefits (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and inpatient care for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara Health System)—involve none of the cardiac surgical procedures the code nominally describes. The mismatch suggests the code has been incorrectly applied to general healthcare procurement activity rather than the specific surgical removal of external heart assist devices it names.

State and local procurement bodies do not appear to issue solicitations for the narrowly defined cardiac surgical procedure this Commodity code describes; if such work is procured at all, it occurs within broader healthcare contracts or institutional budgeting rather than discrete RFPs or RFQs. Business development professionals should verify whether opportunities of genuine relevance to external ventricular assist device (EVAD) removal exist outside the UNSPSC classification system or under higher-tier family and class codes encompassing general hospital surgical services.