UNSPSC 85611843: Drainage of gallbladder with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of gallbladder with drainage device, 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 0F9440Z

UNSPSC 85611843 Drainage of gallbladder with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity under its nominal scope. The recent opportunities tagged to this code—independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—do not align with the procedure-specific medical device or clinical intervention the code nominally describes. State and local procurement offices appear to have applied this code inconsistently across healthcare administration and staffing services rather than to the specific gallbladder drainage procedure or related implantable devices the code is designed to capture.

The mismatch between code assignment and actual work scope suggests either a data quality issue in the procurement system or a systematic misalignment of healthcare service categories within state and local UNSPSC taxonomies. Buyers in this space—including the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County, and County of Santa Clara Health System—are active in healthcare procurement but are tagging their solicitations to codes that do not reflect the work being performed. Pursuit decisions under this code should rely on direct search of issuing bodies' procurement portals and notices rather than on code-level aggregation, as the code provides no reliable signal of genuine demand for gallbladder drainage devices or related clinical interventions at the state and local level.