UNSPSC 85612351: Bypass left hepatic duct to small intestine, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass left hepatic duct to small intestine, 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 0F160ZB

UNSPSC 85612351 Bypass left hepatic duct to small intestine, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity posted under it. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the four recent opportunities tagged to this code solicit medical and healthcare services of entirely different scope — inmate prison healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary care, peer mental health support, and fire department medical direction — none of which involve hepatic bypass surgery or related surgical interventions.

The mismatch between the code's surgical nomenclature and the healthcare services being solicited suggests either a data classification error in the state and local procurement systems tagging these opportunities or a fundamental misalignment between the UNSPSC taxonomy and how issuing bodies are labeling healthcare contracts. No recent state and local opportunities under this code actually solicit hepatic bypass procedures, surgical supplies, surgical services, or clinical pathways related to hepatic duct bypass. The geographic spread of tagged opportunities spans Florida (Collier County, Monroe County), Georgia (Muscogee County), and California (San Mateo County, Santa Monica), but this geographic diversity reflects healthcare purchasing across multiple domains rather than coherent activity in the code's stated scope. Business development professionals should verify the correct UNSPSC code assignment before pursuing opportunities posted under 85612351, as the current tagging appears unreliable for identifying genuine surgical procedure procurement or surgical services contracting.