UNSPSC 85511818: Bypass left external iliac artery to left external iliac artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left external iliac artery to left external iliac artery 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 041J0KF

UNSPSC 85511818 Bypass left external iliac artery to left external iliac artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach (Commodity) does not align with state and local procurement activity. Recent opportunities tagged under this code reflect occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit evaluation, pharmacy benefit management, specialty surgical carve-out networks, health professional temporary staffing, and youth detention healthcare services — none of which constitute the vascular surgical procedure the code nominally describes. The code appears to have been applied to health services contracting opportunities where procurement offices used it as a catch-all classification, rather than as a descriptor of actual surgical procedure procurement. State and local governments do not purchase specific surgical procedures as discrete commodities; they contract for healthcare management, staffing, surveillance, and administrative services.

The recent opportunities originate across diverse issuing bodies — the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (disability medical evaluation), the City of Long Beach (surgical benefit carve-out networks), the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary health professional staffing) — with activity concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. No pattern of repeat buyers or consistent scope of work emerges. Given the mismatch between the code's stated focus and what state and local governments are actually soliciting under it, the code offers no reliable signal for business development targeting.