UNSPSC 85515002: Revision of synthetic substitute in lower artery, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of synthetic substitute in lower 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 04WY0JZ

UNSPSC 85515002 Revision of synthetic substitute in lower artery, open approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code's medical nomenclature—describing a specific vascular surgical procedure—does not match the scope of any of the six recent opportunities tagged under it. Those opportunities span independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for ferry system workers, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management administration, and temporary health professional staffing pools. None of these solicitations involve procurement of vascular implants, synthetic artery substitutes, surgical devices, or procedural supplies used in lower-extremity arterial revision surgery. The issuing bodies include municipal retirement offices (City of Phoenix), cities (Long Beach, Long Beach), state transportation agencies (Washington State Department of Transportation), county governments (Harris County, Collier County, Santa Clara County), and county health systems (Santa Clara), spanning Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington.

The code appears to reflect a taxonomic miscoding rather than active procurement demand. State and local governments do not typically purchase individual implantable medical devices through public procurement channels in the manner suggested by the code's surgical-procedure nomenclature; such purchases are typically embedded within hospital supply contracts, group purchasing organization agreements, or vendor-direct arrangements managed by health systems and surgical centers outside formal RFP and RFQ processes. No representative opportunities in vascular implant procurement, device supply agreements, or surgical supply management are present in the recent activity. This code warrants deprioritization pending clarification of whether it reflects genuine state and local demand or a data-entry artifact.