UNSPSC 85511915: Bypass right external iliac artery to left femoral artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass right external iliac artery to left femoral 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 041H0KJ

UNSPSC 85511915, Bypass right external iliac artery to left femoral artery with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach, is a Commodity code describing a specific surgical vascular procedure, yet the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it bear no material relationship to vascular bypass surgery. Instead, the code's recent activity spans occupational medical surveillance, disability evaluation services, employee health benefit carve-outs, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary clinical staffing — none of which involve the surgical intervention the code nominally describes. The mismatch appears to reflect a cataloging error rather than a genuine procurement category; state and local procurement offices have tagged administratively distinct health services and benefits activities under a code designed for a discrete surgical procedure. Consequently, this code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its formal scope.

The only remotely adjacent opportunities in the source are the City of Phoenix's independent medical evaluation RFP (disability benefit assessments for public safety pension boards, due October 16, 2026), the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance services RFP (baseline and periodic employee examinations across 14 ferry system locations, due October 9, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing vehicle (multiple ancillary clinical categories on a non-exclusive qualified-list basis, due October 7, 2026). None involves vascular or cardiac bypass work. The remaining opportunities — Long Beach's surgical benefit carve-out program for Centers of Excellence, Harris County's emergency medical services RFI for youth in custody, and Collier County's pharmacy benefit management RFP — address health plan design and clinical support services entirely outside the code's stated procedural scope. Business development professionals should treat this code as inactive for procurement planning purposes and investigate whether the opportunities have been miscoded or whether a different UNSPSC family better captures the health services and benefits activities actually being solicited.