UNSPSC 85561902: Drainage of left inner ear with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left inner ear with drainage 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 099E00Z

UNSPSC 85561902 Drainage of left inner ear with drainage device, open approach is a Commodity code for a highly specific surgical procedure, yet the recent state and local opportunities tagged with this code show little substantive alignment with the code's nominal scope. The few opportunities posted under this designation include independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), occupational medical surveillance for ferry system employees (Washington State Department of Transportation), surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees (City of Long Beach), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), temporary health professional staffing (Santa Clara County Health System), and specialty emergency medical services for detained youth (Harris County). None of these solicitations involve ear drainage procedures or surgical implants; instead, they span occupational health screening, pension medical review, employee benefit administration, and clinical staffing placements. The code shows no relevant recent activity for the procedure it nominally describes.

State and local procurement offices appear to have mistagged these opportunities with a procedure-specific surgical code rather than broader medical service or staffing classifications. The geographic spread covers Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Washington, but the diversity of service types and issuing bodies—cities, counties, health systems, and state departments—reflects tagging inconsistency rather than meaningful procurement concentration. No evidence exists in the source material that state and local governments are actively procuring ear drainage procedures or related surgical devices under this code. Firms evaluating this code should recognize the mismatch between the code's procedural specificity and actual state and local buying activity, and should verify proper UNSPSC classification with purchasing offices before pursuing opportunities currently labeled under this designation.