UNSPSC 85504441: Bypass left axillary artery to left upper leg artery with synthetic substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left axillary artery to left upper leg 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 03160J7

UNSPSC 85504441 Bypass left axillary artery to left upper leg artery with synthetic substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with state and local government procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure—a vascular bypass graft—yet the recent opportunities posted under it span occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary clinical staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension boards, and specialty surgical networks. None of these solicitations involve procurement of the implantable device or surgical service the code purports to name. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being tagged under it suggests either a data classification error or a legacy tagging artifact that has decoupled from current procurement practice.

Recent opportunities are geographically distributed across Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Florida (Collier County), and Texas (Harris County), with no concentration in any single jurisdiction or state. The solicitations draw from city procurement offices, county health systems, state transportation departments, and retirement boards—a mix typical of state and local health-care and human-services procurement broadly. Without a coherent commodity scope anchoring the code, business development professionals should treat this code as a watch signal for potential misfiling rather than a reliable indicator of actual procurement demand.