UNSPSC 85541608: Revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in thoracic duct, external approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in thoracic duct, external 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 07WKXKZ

UNSPSC 85541608, Revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in thoracic duct, external approach, is a Commodity code that shows no recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The six recent opportunities tagged under this code—independent medical evaluations for public safety pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical carve-out benefits for municipal employees (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County Board of County Commissioners), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara Health System)—represent administrative healthcare services, benefits management, and staffing procurement rather than surgical procedures or tissue substitutes. None of these solicitations involve the medical device, surgical procedure, or tissue revision work the code nominally describes, indicating either systematic miscoding by the issuing bodies or use of this code as a catch-all medical services classification.

The opportunities span multiple states and issuer types—county human resources and benefits offices, state departments, county health systems, and county juvenile justice agencies—with activity in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. No issuer appears in more than one recent opportunity. The miscoding severity and complete absence of relevant orthopedic surgical, tissue engineering, or medical device procurement under this code suggest the code is not a viable pursuit target for vendors in the thoracic duct revision space; the taxonomy assignment appears to reflect administrative processing error rather than genuine demand signal.