UNSPSC 85541963: Drainage of thoracic duct, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of thoracic duct, 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 079K4ZZ

UNSPSC 85541963 Drainage of thoracic duct, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code, but it shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope—a specific clinical procedure—does not align with the recent state and local opportunities tagged to it. Instead, the tagged opportunities span independent medical evaluation services, health plan benefits administration, occupational medical surveillance, specialty healthcare for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve thoracic duct drainage procedures or the procedural clinical work the code nominally describes.

The recent opportunities under this code reflect broader health benefit administration and medical staffing activity at the municipal, county, and regional health system level—Phoenix Retirement Office disability evaluations, Long Beach employee surgical benefits carve-out management, Washington State Ferries occupational medicine surveillance, Harris County Juvenile Probation emergency and specialty care for detained youth, Collier County pharmacy benefit administration, and Santa Clara County temporary health professional staffing. The geographic spread includes Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida. The mismatch between the code's procedural title and the benefit-administration and staffing work actually being procured suggests either a classification error in the source data or that the code is not actively used by state and local buyers for its nominal scope. Practitioners should verify code accuracy when evaluating opportunities in this family.