UNSPSC 85512511: Bypass abdominal aorta to bilateral common iliac arteries, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass abdominal aorta to bilateral common iliac arteries, 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 04100Z8

UNSPSC 85512511 Bypass abdominal aorta to bilateral common iliac arteries, open approach is a Commodity code that represents a specific surgical procedure, yet the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under it bear no relation to this surgical intervention and instead reflect healthcare administration, occupational health surveillance, pharmacy management, and temporary clinical staffing services. The code shows a fundamental mismatch between its nominal scope—a vascular surgical procedure—and the actual procurements state and local governments are executing under this classification.

The six recent opportunities span Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, issued by a city retirement office (Phoenix), two municipalities (Long Beach and unspecified city), a state transportation department (Washington), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County, Texas), and a county health system (Santa Clara). None of these opportunities solicits vascular surgery, surgical devices, implants, or related medical supplies. Instead, they request independent medical evaluation services for disability determinations (Phoenix, RFP due October 16, 2026), surgical procedure carve-out benefit administration through Centers of Excellence networks (Long Beach, RFP due October 7, 2026), occupational medical surveillance across ferry system locations (Washington State Department of Transportation, RFP due October 9, 2026), emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, RFI due September 25, 2026), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County, RFP due April 9, 2026—a dated deadline suggesting possible data error), and temporary ancillary health professional staffing qualification pools (Santa Clara County Health System, RFP due October 7, 2026). The code appears to function as a catchall taxonomy category for health-related public-sector contracting rather than a discrete surgical procedure line item, signaling either a classification error in the underlying procurement database or a systematic mislabeling of healthcare services under procedure-specific codes.