UNSPSC 85602461: Bypass ascending colon to descending colon with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass ascending colon to descending colon with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0D1K4KM

UNSPSC 85602461 Bypass ascending colon to descending colon with nonautologous tissue substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged to this code do not reflect the medical device or surgical procedure scope implied by the code name. Instead, the five posted solicitations span independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employee health plans, occupational health surveillance for state ferry workers, emergency and specialty medical services for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management administration, and temporary clinical staffing pool qualification. None of these activities—pension disability evaluations, health plan administration, occupational medical screening, youth detention healthcare, pharmacy claims processing, or temporary staffing—correspond to a surgical procedure involving colonic bypass with tissue substitutes performed percutaneously via endoscope.

The issuing bodies include city pension boards, municipal human resources departments, state transportation agencies, county juvenile justice and health systems, and county health benefits consortiums across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. The mismatch between the code's procedural scope and the actual work being solicited suggests either a data-entry error in the source or a miscoding of these health services opportunities within the UNSPSC taxonomy. State and local governments procuring under this code are not buying implantable medical devices or surgical procedures; they are buying administrative health services, staffing, and benefits management. Prospective vendors in the surgical device or gastrointestinal procedure market should verify correct code classification with individual procurement offices before pursuing opportunities tagged to 85602461, as the current opportunities do not reflect demand for the product or service this Commodity code nominally describes.