UNSPSC 85571913: Occlusion of right lower lobe bronchus, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of right lower lobe bronchus, 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 0BL60ZZ

UNSPSC 85571913 Occlusion of right lower lobe bronchus, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with state and local government procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure classification from medical procedure taxonomy—bears no relation to the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under it. The opportunities on file involve independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—none of which involve occlusion of bronchi or procedural surgical codes. The mismatch suggests either a cataloging error in the state and local procurement data source or misapplication of medical procedure codes to healthcare procurement solicitations that do not correspond to the code's clinical content.

The recent opportunities do reflect substantial healthcare services procurement activity across multiple jurisdictions—the City of Phoenix (medical evaluation RFP, $750,000 over five years), the City of Long Beach (surgical benefit carve-out RFP), the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance RFP), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (specialty emergency medical services RFI), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management RFP, approximately $8.7 million annually), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary health professional staffing RFSQ). However, these opportunities should not be evaluated under this Commodity code. No meaningful signal about procurement concentration, geographic spread, or business development opportunity can be derived from a code–opportunity mismatch of this magnitude.