UNSPSC 85504377: Bypass right brachial artery to lower arm vein with autologous venous tissue, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right brachial artery to lower arm vein with autologous venous 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 031709F

UNSPSC 85504377 Bypass right brachial artery to lower arm vein with autologous venous tissue, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical vascular procedure; however, state and local governments do not directly procure individual surgical interventions or vascular bypass procedures as line-item commodities. The recent opportunities tagged to this code instead address broader healthcare administration, occupational medical surveillance, pharmaceutical management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve procurement of the specific procedure named in the code.

The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the actual procurement scope signals either a classification error in the source data or opportunistic tagging of healthcare-related opportunities to a medically named but operationally irrelevant commodity code. No representative opportunities involving vascular surgical procedures, surgical supplies, implants, or procedure-specific contracting appear in the recent posting activity. Firms evaluating this code for state and local business development should treat it as inactive for procurement purposes and instead track relevant healthcare procurement codes aligned with medical device supply, hospital contracting, or benefits administration services.