UNSPSC 85543448: Destruction of thorax lymphatic, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of thorax lymphatic, 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 07574ZZ

UNSPSC 85543448 Destruction of thorax lymphatic, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows negligible alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The nominal scope describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent opportunities posted under this code involve occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and surgical benefit carve-out programs — none of which involve thoracic lymphatic intervention. The code appears to have been misapplied or tagged incorrectly across the opportunities, indicating either a data-quality issue in how state and local jurisdictions are classifying medical and health services procurement, or a systematic mismatch between the clinical taxonomy embedded in UNSPSC and the transactional procurement categories that public buyers actually use.

The issuing bodies soliciting under the records tagged to this code include county governments (Collier County, Harris County, Santa Clara County), state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), cities (Phoenix, Long Beach), and regional health systems. Geographic concentration spans California, Texas, Florida, Washington, and Arizona. Representative opportunities include the Washington State Department of Transportation's solicitation (RFP 20260825) for occupational medical surveillance services for ferry workers across 14 Washington locations with proposals due October 9, 2026; the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP (RTMRFP26001) for independent medical evaluation services to support disability determinations under Arizona's Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, with a maximum contract value of $750,000 over five years and proposals due October 16, 2026; and Collier County's RFP (258414) for pharmacy benefit management services covering approximately 2,400 employees with historical annual spending of $8.7 million. The code's recent activity reflects health-services procurement broadly rather than specific surgical procedures, suggesting that pursuit decisions should rest on vendor capability in the actual service categories (occupational medicine, disability evaluation, PBM administration, temporary staffing) rather than on the code's stated medical procedure focus.