UNSPSC 85612040: Excision of right hepatic duct, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right hepatic duct, 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 0FB57ZZ

UNSPSC 85612040 Excision of right hepatic duct, via natural or artificial opening is a Commodity code that does not reflect recent state and local government procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure—a medical intervention that falls outside the scope of goods and services state and local agencies typically procure. The recent opportunities tagged to this code include independent medical evaluation services for disability benefits, surgical benefit carve-out programs for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty healthcare for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these opportunities involve procurement of surgical procedure services or the delivery of the specific hepatic duct excision procedure named in the code. The disconnect between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being bought under it signals either a data-entry error in the source system or a fundamental mismatch in how the code has been applied to benefits administration and occupational health contracts.

The issuing bodies in the recent-opportunities block include city retirement offices (Phoenix), municipal health authorities (Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County, Texas), county government (Collier County, Florida), and a county health system (Santa Clara, California). Because the code shows no relevant procurement activity aligned with its stated definition, no geographic concentration or representative opportunity patterns can be meaningfully characterized. Firms pursuing work under this code should verify the UNSPSC classification with the issuing agency before investing in pursuit, as the tag appears to be misapplied to administrative and occupational health services rather than surgical procedure delivery.