UNSPSC 85602230: Occlusion of ascending colon, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of ascending colon, 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 0DLK3ZZ

UNSPSC 85602230 Occlusion of ascending colon, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code whose nominal title does not reflect the work state and local governments are actually soliciting under it. The recent opportunities tagged to this code span independent medical evaluations for public safety pension disability determinations, occupational health surveillance for transportation workers, surgical procedure carve-out networks for municipal employee health plans, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, specialty medical services for detained youth, and emergency medical services coordination—none of which involve the gastrointestinal intervention the code name describes. State and local procurement offices are using this code to classify health service procurement across a broad range of activities: disability medical record review and physician exam coordination for pension eligibility; occupational baseline and periodic medical examinations for dock workers and ferry crews; Centers of Excellence networks for orthopedic and surgical procedures; pharmacy claims processing and formulary management; and temporary clinical staffing in imaging, therapy, cardiology, and surgical support roles. The issuing bodies include city retirement offices, county health systems and juvenile detention authorities, state transportation departments, and municipal human resources divisions—a mix spanning state agencies, county commissioners, cities, and special-purpose health districts.

Recent activity is spread across Arizona, California, Washington State, Texas, and Florida. Representative opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for disability medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026, with a five-year term and $750,000 maximum compensation), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry system locations (due October 9, 2026, with a two-year base term and options to extend five additional years), the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical benefit carve-out networks through Centers of Excellence (due October 7, 2026, targeting April 1, 2027 go-live), Collier County's RFP for pharmacy benefit management ($8.7 million historical annual spend, three-year term effective January 1, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's multiple-award RFSQ for temporary health professional staffing across ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026). The code shows significant recent activity, but the mismatch between its gastrointestinal-procedure title and the health-services work being solicited suggests classification drift rather than genuine procurement of colon occlusion procedures at the state and local level.