UNSPSC 85502828: Bypass left common carotid artery to intracranial artery with autologous arterial tissue, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left common carotid artery to intracranial artery with autologous arterial tissue, 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 031J0AG

UNSPSC 85502828 Bypass left common carotid artery to intracranial artery with autologous arterial tissue, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local government procurement. The six most recent opportunities tagged under this code—spanning independent medical evaluations for disability pensions, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, juvenile detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—do not describe the surgical procedure named in the code itself. State and local governments do not appear to procure this specific vascular surgery through the competitive solicitation market; the mismatch between the code's clinical descriptor and the actual scope of recent opportunities suggests either tagging error or that this procedure falls outside typical state and local procurement workflows.

The opportunities present instead reflect state and local healthcare administration and clinical support services—disability medical review (City of Phoenix Retirement Office), Centers of Excellence networks for elective surgery (City of Long Beach), occupational health surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), detention facility emergency and specialty care (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit administration (Collier County), and temporary clinical staffing (Santa Clara County Health System). These represent healthcare operations, benefits administration, and workforce augmentation rather than procurement of a specific surgical intervention. No further pursuit of this code is warranted without evidence of actual surgical-procedure procurement activity in the state and local market.