UNSPSC 85601755: Drainage of ascending colon, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of ascending colon, 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 0D9K7ZZ

UNSPSC 85601755 Drainage of ascending colon, via natural or artificial opening is a Commodity code whose nominal clinical scope bears no relationship to the state and local procurement activity currently tagged under it. The recent opportunities show no medical procedures matching the code's stated clinical description. Instead, the opportunities span occupational health surveillance, pension disability medical evaluations, employee health plan carve-outs, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency youth detention medical services—none of which involve drainage of the ascending colon. The code appears to have been applied as a catch-all medical services classifier rather than as a specific procedural code, suggesting either data quality issues in how state and local procurement offices are tagging opportunities or a fundamental mismatch between UNSPSC's clinical taxonomy and how jurisdictions use it for health benefits and occupational services contracting.

The issuing bodies span state departments, counties, and municipalities: the Washington State Department of Transportation (ferries occupational health), the City of Phoenix (pension disability evaluations), the City of Long Beach (employee surgical benefits), Collier County (pharmacy benefits), Harris County (juvenile detention healthcare), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary clinical staffing). Recent opportunities include the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance with proposals due October 9, 2026; the City of Phoenix's RFP for disability medical record summary and independent medical evaluation services with proposals due October 16, 2026; and the County of Santa Clara Health System's qualification-based solicitation for temporary health professional staffing categories with proposals due October 7, 2026. Geographic activity centers on California, Washington, Arizona, Florida, and Texas, with no clear concentration in any region. Vendors pursuing this code should recognize that recent activity targets employee health plan management, occupational health compliance, and workforce staffing rather than the procedure named in the code itself.