UNSPSC 85572864: Removal of drainage device from pleura, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of drainage device from pleura, via natural or artificial opening. 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 0BPQ70Z

UNSPSC 85572864 Removal of drainage device from pleura, via natural or artificial opening is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work being solicited under it in recent state and local opportunities. The code's clinical nomenclature — a specific surgical procedure for pleural drainage — bears no relationship to the scope of services actually being procured by state and local jurisdictions tagged with this code.

The recent opportunities flagged under this code span occupational medical surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), temporary health professional staffing across ancillary clinical categories (County of Santa Clara Health System), independent medical evaluations for disability pension determinations (City of Phoenix Retirement Office), surgical Centers of Excellence carve-outs for municipal employees (City of Long Beach), and emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department). None of these procurements involve pleural drainage device removal or related thoracic procedures. The code appears to be a tagging error or misclassification in the procurement source data, with the result that this Commodity code shows little decision-relevant activity for vendors focused on the procedure it nominally describes.