UNSPSC 85571959: Extirpation of matter from left upper lobe bronchus, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from left upper 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 0BC80ZZ

UNSPSC 85571959 Extirpation of matter from left upper lobe bronchus, open approach is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged under it bear no meaningful connection to the code's medical procedure nomenclature. The opportunities posted under this code over the past three months do not reflect surgical intervention on lung tissue; instead, they span occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, specialty surgical carve-out benefit administration, pharmacy benefit management, emergency and specialty care for detained youth, and temporary health professional staffing. This persistent mismatch between code label and actual procurement activity suggests either systematic miscoding in state and local systems or that the code has been repurposed as a catch-all for health service contracts that do not fit neatly into other medical taxonomy buckets. The scope of work actually being bought includes medical record review and chronological summarization for pension benefit applications, physician-led occupational health examinations across multiple Washington State ferry locations, surgical and orthopedic care carve-outs through Centers of Excellence networks, pharmacy administration and formulary management, and temporary clinical staffing in audiology, imaging, therapy, and support roles.

Issuing bodies across the recent opportunities include city retirement offices (City of Phoenix), county health systems (Santa Clara, Collier County), state transportation departments (Washington Department of Transportation on behalf of Washington State Ferries), county juvenile justice agencies (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), and municipalities (City of Long Beach). The geographic spread includes Arizona, California, Florida, Washington, and Texas. Representative recent opportunities are the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (RTMRFP26001, responses due October 16, 2026) for approximately 75 annual disability benefit applications at up to $750,000 over five years; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry locations statewide (RFP20260825, proposals due October 9, 2026); and the County of Santa Clara Health System's qualification solicitation for temporary health professional staffing across 13 ancillary clinical categories (RFSQHHSFY270052, proposals due October 7, 2026). The code shows recent activity but reflects health-service commodities that diverge sharply from the procedural medical label the code nominally describes.