UNSPSC 85502807: Bypass right temporal artery to intracranial artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right temporal artery to intracranial 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 031S0KG

UNSPSC 85502807 Bypass right temporal artery to intracranial artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that does not match the work actually being solicited under it in recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure — bypass grafting to intracranial vessels — yet the recent opportunities tagged with this code are purchasing medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational health surveillance, temporary health professional staffing, and surgical procedure carve-out networks. None of these services involve performing or delivering the procedural intervention the code name specifies. The mismatch suggests either a systematic miscoding error or that the code repository is conflating unrelated medical services under a single commodity number without regard to procedural specificity.

The recent opportunities do show genuine state and local demand for medical evaluation, occupational medicine, pharmacy management, and temporary clinical staffing across issuing bodies ranging from city retirement offices (Phoenix), county human resources departments (Collier County, Santa Clara), health systems, and a state transportation agency (Washington State Department of Transportation). However, these opportunities reflect broad occupational health, employee benefits administration, and staffing procurement — not the neurovascular surgical procedure the code purports to describe. Without evidence that state and local governments are actually soliciting providers to perform temporal-to-intracranial artery bypasses under this code, the code shows little relevant recent activity for vendors offering surgical services aligned with the commodity's stated scope.