UNSPSC 85573653: Drainage of right upper lung lobe, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of right upper lung lobe, percutaneous 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 0B9C3ZZ

UNSPSC 85573653 Drainage of right upper lung lobe, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its clinical scope. The six recent opportunities tagged to this code—independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-outs, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—represent health system administration, workforce health, and benefits contracting, not the specific thoracic surgical procedure the code nominally describes. State and local governments do purchase healthcare and medical staffing services at scale, but these opportunities reflect benefits management, occupational health programs, and temporary clinical staffing arrangements rather than drainage procedures or comparable invasive clinical interventions.

The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited signals either consistent miscoding by issuing bodies or use of this Commodity code as a catch-all placeholder for healthcare procurement. Recent activity spans Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office independent medical evaluation RFP due October 16, 2026; $750,000 over five years), California (City of Long Beach surgical benefit carve-out RFP due October 7, 2026; Washington State Department of Transportation occupational medical surveillance RFP due October 9, 2026), Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department medical services RFI due September 25, 2026), and Florida (Collier County pharmacy benefit management RFP; Santa Clara County temporary health professional staffing RFP due October 7, 2026). If this code is actively used by state procurement offices for healthcare contracting generally, it warrants close monitoring of issuing-body coding practices and actual scope definitions in each RFP to avoid misalignment between bid preparation and delivered work.