UNSPSC 85572971: Excision of right middle lung lobe, via natural or artificial opening endoscopic

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right middle lung lobe, via natural or artificial opening endoscopic. 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 0BBD8ZZ

UNSPSC 85572971, Excision of right middle lung lobe via natural or artificial opening endoscopic, is a Commodity code that does not align with actual state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure performed on an individual patient in a clinical setting; recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code instead solicit administrative health services, staffing, pharmacy benefits management, and occupational medical surveillance—none of which involve surgical procedures at the commodity level.

The recent opportunities in the block—Phoenix's independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, Long Beach's surgical benefits carve-out for employee health plans, Washington State Ferries' occupational medical surveillance, Harris County Juvenile Probation's youth detention healthcare services, Collier County's pharmacy benefit management, and Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing—represent procurement of health services programs, contracting relationships, and administrative functions rather than a single coded surgical intervention. No recent state or local opportunities appear to purchase lung lobe excisions as a line item or bundled service under this code. The mismatch signals either a data-classification error in the tagging system or that this code does not reflect active state and local demand.