UNSPSC 85573338: Release left lower lung lobe, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release left lower lung lobe, 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 0BNJ0ZZ

UNSPSC 85573338 Release left lower lung lobe, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code's clinical surgical nomenclature—specific to thoracic procedures performed in hospital operating rooms—does not align with the healthcare and public-health contracting actually being solicited by state and local jurisdictions in the recent opportunities dataset.

The recent opportunities tagged under this code are instead soliciting comprehensive healthcare service delivery, pharmacy benefit management, virtual care platforms, peer support services, and medical directorship for emergency services—none of which involve surgical intervention or hospital-based thoracic procedures. Columbus Consolidated Government (Georgia), Collier County (Florida), Monroe County (Florida), San Mateo County (California), and Santa Monica Fire Department (California) have posted RFPs for inmate medical and pharmacy services, PBM administration, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support worker programs, and fire department medical direction, respectively. The mismatch between the code's stated scope and the work being procured suggests either systematic miscoding at the jurisdictional level or that this code does not meaningfully track state and local buying patterns. Practitioners should verify code assignment with issuing bodies before pursuing opportunities nominally tagged under 85573338.