UNSPSC 85542962: Drainage of thorax lymphatic, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of thorax lymphatic, 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 07970ZZ

UNSPSC 85542962 Drainage of thorax lymphatic, open approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominates a specific surgical procedure, but the six recent opportunities posted under this code span occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit medical record summarization, surgical procedure carve-out networks for employee health plans, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty medical services for youth in detention — none of which involve thoracic lymphatic drainage or constitute surgical procedure procurement in the traditional sense. The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the actual scope of work being bought suggests either miscoding on the part of issuing bodies or assignment of this code to administrative and benefit-management services that fall outside its nominal definition.

The issuing bodies represent a mix of state departments, counties, and municipal health systems: the Washington State Department of Transportation (on behalf of State Ferries), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, the City of Long Beach, and the County of Santa Clara Health System. Activity concentrates in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for disability medical record summary and independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026 with total maximum compensation of $750,000 over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry system locations (due October 9, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's RFP to establish a qualified vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing across multiple ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026). Given the consistent mismatch between the code definition and actual procurement scope, this code warrants review for potential recoding or represents an outlier assignment by individual jurisdictions rather than a meaningful procurement category for surgical drainage services.