UNSPSC 85602164: Bypass transverse colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass transverse colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic 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 0D1L0JN

UNSPSC 85602164 Bypass transverse colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic substitute, open approach is a Commodity code nominally describing a specific surgical procedure, but the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under it bear no material relationship to that surgical scope. Instead, the opportunities reflect a broad range of health services procurement—occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, specialty surgical networks, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth. State and local issuers are using this code to tag medical services and staffing solicitations that fall outside the narrow procedural definition the code nominally describes. The issuing bodies are diverse: county health systems and retirement offices, state transportation departments, county procurement divisions, and county juvenile probation departments. None of the recent opportunities appear to solicit actual bypass-colon surgical procedures or implants.

The geographic activity spans Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach, County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Texas (Harris County), and Florida (Collier County), suggesting national fragmentation rather than concentration in any single region. Representative recent opportunities include the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP, posted August 25, 2026, with proposals due October 9, 2026, requiring occupational-medicine-board-certified physicians to conduct baseline and periodic examinations across 14 ferry system locations; the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP, posted September 16, 2026, with proposals due October 16, 2026, seeking disability medical record summaries and coordinated examinations for roughly 75 annual public-safety pension disability applications at a five-year contract value of $750,000; and the County of Santa Clara Health System's multiple-award temporary health professional staffing vehicle, posted July 7, 2026, with proposals due October 7, 2026, establishing a non-exclusive qualified vendor pool across 13 ancillary clinical categories without guaranteed work volume. The code shows persistent activity but reflects taxonomy misalignment rather than genuine procurement under the surgical procedure the code nominally names.