UNSPSC 85592561: Insertion of airway into esophagus, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to insertion of airway into esophagus, via natural or artificial opening. 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 0DH57BZ

UNSPSC 85592561 Insertion of airway into esophagus, via natural or artificial opening is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity in the recent solicitation record. The code's clinical procedure description does not match the scope of work being solicited by state and local health systems, counties, and municipalities. Recent opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-outs, and youth detention healthcare services — none of which involve esophageal airway insertion procedures. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding by issuing bodies or that the code's applicability to state and local healthcare procurement is not clearly understood by those tagging opportunities.

The recent activity under this code spans three states: Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office), California (City of Long Beach, County of Santa Clara), and Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation). Harris County, Texas also appears with an RFI for youth detention healthcare services. Arizona's Phoenix Retirement Office issued an RFP (RTMRFP26001, due October 16, 2026) for independent medical evaluation services totaling $750,000 over five years; Long Beach issued an RFP (HR26753, due October 7, 2026) for surgical benefit management; WSDOT issued an RFP (RFP20260825, due October 9, 2026) for occupational medical surveillance; and Santa Clara County issued an RFQ (RFSQHHSFY270052, due October 7, 2026) for temporary health professional staffing across multiple ancillary clinical categories. The geographic spread is limited and the coding discrepancy substantially reduces the utility of this code as a targeting mechanism for procurement pursuit.