UNSPSC 85511741: Bypass right femoral artery to left femoral artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right femoral artery to left femoral 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 041K0ZJ

UNSPSC 85511741 Bypass right femoral artery to left femoral artery, open approach is a Commodity code nominally describing a surgical procedure, but state and local governments show no relevant procurement activity under this code. The recent opportunities tagged to this Commodity span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-outs, and emergency youth detention medical services — none of which involve femoral artery bypass surgery or related vascular procedure procurement. The code appears to be a clinical procedure taxonomy entry that does not map to state and local government contracting activity as currently practiced.

State and local health systems, counties, municipalities, and other public bodies do purchase medical services, staffing, and benefit management at scale, but they solicit these services through RFPs and RFQs for provider networks, staffing pools, and administrative services rather than by procedure code. No geographic concentration, issuing-body pattern, or decision-relevant procurement signal emerges from the tagging of this code to unrelated opportunity categories. Firms evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for state and local procurement purposes and redirect business development to higher-level medical services, occupational health, or benefits administration codes where actual solicitation activity occurs.