UNSPSC 85504352: Bypass left brachial artery to left upper arm artery with synthetic substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left brachial artery to left upper arm artery with synthetic 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 03180J1

UNSPSC 85504352 Bypass left brachial artery to left upper arm artery with synthetic substitute, open approach is a Commodity code representing a specific surgical procedure, yet the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under this code show no alignment with the code's nominal scope. The opportunities posted under this code over the past three months center instead on occupational medical surveillance, independent disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits for municipal employees, and specialty medical services for detained youth — none of which involve vascular bypass surgery or synthetic arterial grafts. This mismatch suggests either a cataloging error in the procurement system or that the code is being applied to abstract health services categories rather than to discrete medical devices or procedures. State and local procurement offices—including the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, the Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, the County of Santa Clara Health System, and the City of Long Beach—are issuing the opportunities, indicating that the code may have been tagged across a broad, unrelated family of health administration and staffing services.

The geographic spread of recent activity includes Arizona (Phoenix), Washington State, Texas (Harris County), Florida (Collier County and Long Beach area), and California (Santa Clara County), but the opportunities themselves do not represent procurement of the specific procedure or device the Commodity code describes. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026) covering disability benefit determinations for public safety personnel; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance (due October 9, 2026) with a pre-bid conference scheduled; and the County of Santa Clara Health System's RFSQ for temporary health professional staffing (due October 7, 2026). Because the code shows no substantive recent procurement activity related to its stated commodity scope, this code warrants investigation into potential system-level coding misalignment before business development pursuit.