UNSPSC 85552926: Drainage of left lower eyelid with drainage device, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left lower eyelid with drainage device, percutaneous 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 089R30Z

UNSPSC 85552926 Drainage of left lower eyelid with drainage device, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The six most-recent opportunities tagged under this code — independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical benefit carve-out administration for a municipal PPO plan (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth (Harris County), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara Health System) — are all administrative healthcare procurement, health plan management, and clinical staffing services. None involves the specific medical procedure named in the code's title. The code's nominal scope describes a surgical drainage procedure for an eyelid condition, yet state and local procurement activity under this UNSPSC tag consists entirely of healthcare services contracting, benefit program administration, and vendor pool qualification, not the procurement or delivery of any individual medical procedure or device.

The mismatch suggests either a data-entry error in how these opportunities were categorized or a fundamental misalignment between the code's definition and its current assignment in state and local procurement databases. The opportunities are legitimate state and local healthcare contracting activity, but they do not map to the procedure described in UNSPSC 85552926. Bidders should verify the correct UNSPSC code before responding to any of these solicitations and should confirm with procurement offices that tagging accuracy if planning to pursue healthcare services opportunities in Arizona, California, Florida, or Washington state.