UNSPSC 85603844: Occlusion of anus, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to occlusion of anus, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0DLQ4ZZ

UNSPSC 85603844 Occlusion of anus, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The code's nominal scope describes a specific clinical procedure, but the recent opportunities posted under this code cover inmate medical and pharmacy services contracting, pharmacy benefit management administration, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support programs for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical director services. None of these solicitations involve the procedure named in the code. State and local procurement databases occasionally tag healthcare and human services opportunities with clinical procedure codes that do not match the actual work being procured, and this code exhibits that mismatch plainly. The activity shown here reflects broader healthcare services contracting, not procedural medicine.

The issuing bodies soliciting under this code include county corrections departments, county commissioners' boards managing employee health benefits, and municipal fire departments. Recent opportunities span Georgia (Muscogee County Prison medical and pharmacy services), Florida (Collier County pharmacy benefit management and Monroe County virtual care), California (San Mateo County peer support pilot), and California municipalities (Santa Monica Fire Department medical direction). If this code continues to receive misaligned tags, it will not serve as a reliable indicator of state and local demand for the procedure it nominally describes.