UNSPSC 85511746: Bypass right femoral artery to bilateral femoral arteries with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right femoral artery to bilateral femoral arteries 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 041K0KK

UNSPSC 85511746, Bypass right femoral artery to bilateral femoral arteries with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach, is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this classification. The code describes a specific surgical procedure code—a vascular bypass operation—yet the recent solicitations tagged to it span occupational medical surveillance, pension disability evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-outs for employee plans, and emergency medical services for detained youth. These opportunities involve medical service administration, staffing, and benefit program management rather than the procurement of a specific surgical intervention or implantable device. The mismatch suggests either a classification error in the tagging of these opportunities or a fundamental divergence between the code's clinical descriptor and how state and local procurement systems are using it in practice.

State and local bodies posting under this code include county health systems, county human resources departments managing employee benefits, city retirement boards, state transportation departments, and county juvenile justice agencies across Arizona, California, Washington, and Florida. No recent opportunities directly solicit the surgical procedure named in the code itself. Given the absence of relevant recent activity aligned to the code's nominal scope, vendors targeting this UNSPSC code should verify whether their actual service line—if related to vascular surgery, vascular grafts, or related devices—is being solicited under a different code, or whether state and local procurement offices in their target markets are consistently misclassifying related medical service and benefit management work under this category.