UNSPSC 85504412: Bypass left axillary artery to left lower arm artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left axillary artery to left lower arm artery, 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 03160Z4

UNSPSC 85504412 Bypass left axillary artery to left lower arm artery, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity in the source material. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent solicitations posted under this code reflect medical services procurement fundamentally unrelated to vascular bypass surgery — including occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, and surgical procedure carve-out programs for employee benefit plans. State and local governments are not soliciting for the performance of this particular surgical procedure or similar surgical interventions under codes tagged with this commodity designation.

The source contains no recent state and local contract opportunities for bypass left axillary artery to left lower arm artery procedures or related surgical services. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the issuing bodies' actual procurement needs—which span occupational health programs (Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington State Ferries), public safety pension medical evaluations (City of Phoenix), employee health benefits administration (City of Long Beach, Collier County, County of Santa Clara), and youth detention healthcare (Harris County)—indicates either systematic miscoding of these opportunities or that this commodity code is not actively used for state and local procurement in the current market. Firms pursuing this code should verify that their service lines align with actual state and local buying patterns rather than the abstract code description.