UNSPSC 85572630: Extirpation of matter from right lower lobe bronchus, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from right lower lobe bronchus, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0BC64ZZ

UNSPSC 85572630 Extirpation of matter from right lower lobe bronchus, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure, but the six recent state and local solicitations tagged to this code address entirely unrelated services: independent medical evaluations for disability retirement determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for ferry system workers, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve extirpation procedures or endoscopic interventions of any kind.

The mismatch between the code's clinical specification and the solicitations it has been assigned suggests either a cataloging error in the source system or routine miscoding of health care contracting by state and local procurement offices. State and local governments do solicit medical services regularly — the recent activity here spans Arizona retirement boards, California cities, Washington State, Texas counties, and Florida counties — but the actual buying under this code does not align with the procedure it nominally describes. Firms pursuing state and local contracts in medical services should verify coding accuracy against the actual scope of work in each RFP rather than relying on UNSPSC assignment alone.