UNSPSC 85601739: Excision of ascending colon, via natural or artificial opening endoscopic

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of ascending colon, via natural or artificial opening endoscopic. 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 0DBK8ZZ

UNSPSC 85601739 Excision of ascending colon, via natural or artificial opening endoscopic (Commodity) does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The source records six recent opportunities tagged under this Commodity code, but none involve the specific surgical procedure the code describes—a gastrointestinal surgical intervention. Instead, the opportunities span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty medical services for youth in custody. These are administrative healthcare services, benefits management, and staffing arrangements, not surgical procedures. The mismatch suggests either tagging error in the source data or use of the code as a catch-all for healthcare services procurement at a granularity that does not reflect actual clinical operations.

The geographic spread of tagged opportunities spans Washington State, Arizona, California (Long Beach), Florida (Collier County), Texas (Harris County), and California again (Santa Clara County), with issuing bodies including state departments of transportation, city retirement offices, county health systems, county boards of commissioners, and county juvenile probation departments. The most recent opportunity is the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP RTMRFP26001 for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026), followed by WSDOT's RFP 20260825 for occupational medical surveillance (due October 9, 2026) and the City of Long Beach's RFP HR26753 for surgical benefit management (due October 7, 2026). Because none of these opportunities involve the surgical procedure named in the Commodity code, the code shows no meaningful recent activity aligned to its nominal scope.