UNSPSC 85573406: Extirpation of matter from right pleura, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from right pleura, 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 0BCN0ZZ

UNSPSC 85573406 Extirpation of matter from right pleura, open approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the state and local procurement activity recently posted under it. The code's nominal surgical procedure scope does not match any of the representative opportunities in the dataset—which instead reflect health services administration, occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and related healthcare program delivery rather than surgical intervention or procedural service lines. The mismatch suggests either a data classification error in the state and local procurement source or a fundamental divergence between the code's technical definition and how it is being applied in practice at issuing agencies.

The recent opportunities attributed to this code span diverse issuing bodies including city retirement offices (City of Phoenix), municipal employee health programs (City of Long Beach), state transportation agencies (Washington State Department of Transportation), county juvenile detention healthcare (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), county human resources consortia (Collier County Board of County Commissioners), and county health systems (County of Santa Clara Health System), with geographic presence across Arizona, California, Florida, Washington, and Texas. Given the fundamental disconnect between the code name and actual scope of work solicited, procurement professionals should verify the correct UNSPSC classification before pursuing opportunities tagged under this code; the opportunities themselves reflect legitimate demand for occupational health surveillance, disability medical evaluation administration, pharmacy management, and temporary clinical staffing, but the code number does not reliably identify that demand.