UNSPSC 85602151: Bypass descending colon to descending colon with autologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass descending colon to descending colon with autologous 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 0D1M07M

UNSPSC 85602151 Bypass descending colon to descending colon with autologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal relevance to recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure using autologous tissue substitution, yet the six recent state and local opportunities tagged to this code span occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for disability determinations, surgical procedure carve-outs for employee benefits, and emergency medical services for detained youth. None of these solicitations involve the procedure named in the code. The mismatch suggests either a systematic tagging error or that the code is being used as a catch-all for health services activity rather than for the discrete surgical procedure it nominally represents.

Given the disconnect between the code's title and the actual work being solicited, this code does not serve as a reliable indicator of surgical-procedure procurement opportunity for business development purposes. State and local purchasing offices in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington have recently issued health services RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs, but those opportunities are driven by occupational health mandates, employee benefits administration, and detention care—not by demand for autologous tissue bypass procedures themselves. Firms pursuing state and local health services work should monitor the specific functional categories (occupational medicine, pharmacy administration, clinical staffing, independent medical evaluation, benefits carve-out management, and detention healthcare) directly rather than relying on this commodity code for signal.