UNSPSC 85552740: Dilation of left lacrimal duct with intraluminal device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to dilation of left lacrimal duct with intraluminal device, 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 087Y0DZ

UNSPSC 85552740, Dilation of left lacrimal duct with intraluminal device, open approach (Commodity), does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure on the lacrimal duct, yet the five recent opportunities posted under this code — from the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, and County of Santa Clara Health System — solicit independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve lacrimal duct procedures or related ophthalmologic interventions.

The mismatch indicates either a systematic coding error in how these opportunities were tagged or that the UNSPSC code database contains a procedural classification that state and local procurement offices are not using to organize buy activity in this service space. The recent opportunities span public safety pension disability evaluations, municipal employee health benefits administration, occupational health compliance, juvenile detention healthcare, pharmacy services, and temporary clinical staffing — functions more aligned with health benefits management, occupational medicine, and staffing administration than with a specific surgical procedure. Practitioners should treat this code as functionally inactive for state and local procurement decision-making and verify the appropriate code hierarchy for medical services procurement within each issuing body's taxonomy.