UNSPSC 85602634: Destruction of right large intestine, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of right large intestine, 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 0D5F7ZZ

UNSPSC 85602634, Destruction of right large intestine via natural or artificial opening, is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The six most recent opportunities posted under or near this code span independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management services, and temporary ancillary health professional staffing — none of which involve colorectal surgical procedures or related medical services that the code's clinical descriptor names. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual opportunities suggests the code is either misapplied by issuing bodies, rarely used for state and local procurement, or both.

Opportunities posted under related medical-services codes appear to cluster around public employee health benefits, occupational health compliance, and procurement of managed-care administrative or staffing services rather than surgical procedures themselves. The issuing bodies in the recent set include municipal retirement boards, city human resources departments, state transportation agencies, county health systems, and county commissioners' offices across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Without direct evidence of colonic surgical procedures being solicited by state and local bodies under this code, the code presents minimal pursuit opportunity for vendors in the surgical or colorectal specialty domain.