UNSPSC 85573662: Destruction of left lower lung lobe, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left lower 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 0B5J3ZZ

UNSPSC 85573662 Destruction of left lower lung lobe, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure—destruction of the left lower lung lobe via percutaneous approach—but the six recent opportunities tagged under it across Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida solicit occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit medical record review and independent medical evaluation, surgical benefit carve-out program management, pharmacy benefit administration, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth. None of these services involve lung lobe destruction or percutaneous surgical procedures.

The mismatch between the code's narrow clinical descriptor and the breadth of health services administration, staffing, and benefits management work actually being solicited suggests either systematic miscoding of opportunities by state and local procurement offices or a data classification error in the underlying taxonomy. The recent opportunities—ranging from the City of Phoenix's $750,000 disability medical evaluation RFP (due October 16, 2026) to Collier County's pharmacy benefit management RFP (approximately $8.7 million annually) to Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing qualification vehicle (non-exclusive, five-year pool, no guaranteed volume)—reflect genuine procurement demand across multiple jurisdictions and sectors (municipal retirement boards, county health systems, state departments of transportation, county commissioners), but they do not constitute purchase activity under the code as currently defined.