UNSPSC 85501819: Bypass left subclavian artery to left pulmonary artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left subclavian artery to left pulmonary artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, 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 03140KN

UNSPSC 85501819 Bypass left subclavian artery to left pulmonary artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach (Commodity) does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific cardiac surgical procedure, yet the most recent opportunities tagged under it reflect general medical services contracting—occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty surgical carve-out programs—none of which constitute the defined procedure itself. State and local purchasing offices appear to have applied this code to a broad range of healthcare services administration and staffing, suggesting either a data-classification mismatch or use of the code as a catch-all container for medical-services procurement outside its procedural definition.

The issuing bodies include large county health systems, municipal pension boards, county human resources divisions, juvenile probation departments, and state transportation agencies. Recent solicitations originate from Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), City of Phoenix Retirement Office (disability medical evaluations), City of Long Beach (surgical carve-out benefits), Collier County Board of Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary clinical staffing), and Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth). Activity spans Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. A vendor evaluating this code should treat it as unreliable for targeting—the mismatch between the procedure-specific code definition and the administrative and staffing services actually being solicited suggests the code is either underutilized or misapplied in the procurement system, making category-based prospecting difficult.