UNSPSC 85504368: Bypass right brachial artery to right upper arm artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right brachial artery to right upper arm 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 03170K0

UNSPSC 85504368 Bypass right brachial artery to right upper arm artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code whose nominal description reflects a specific surgical procedure; however, the recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code show little activity aligned with that narrow clinical scope. Instead, the opportunities represent a divergent set of health services procurements — occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, surgical care center-of-excellence networks, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which describe vascular bypass surgery or directly relate to the code's stated procedure. The issuing bodies are primarily county health systems, municipal retirement offices, and state transportation departments seeking administrative or clinical support services rather than the procedural intervention the code nominally names.

Activity appears concentrated in the Southwest and West Coast. The Washington State Department of Transportation issued an occupational medical surveillance RFP due October 9, 2026, seeking physician-supervised examinations across 14 Washington ferry system locations; the City of Phoenix Retirement Office posted an RFP for disability medical evaluation services due October 16, 2026, with a maximum five-year contract value of $750,000; the City of Long Beach solicited surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits for its Anthem PPO plan due October 7, 2026; Harris County Juvenile Probation Department issued an RFI for specialty and emergency medical services for detained youth due September 25, 2026; and the County of Santa Clara Health System established a qualified vendor pool for temporary ancillary health professional staffing due October 7, 2026. The mismatch between the code's procedural description and the actual services being procured suggests either systematic miscoding in the state and local opportunity dataset or fundamental misalignment between the UNSPSC taxonomy and the work state and local governments are actually buying under this code. A business development strategy premised on vascular surgical procedures would not track the recent opportunity flow.