UNSPSC 85612580: Extirpation of matter from left lobe liver, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from left lobe liver, 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 0FC23ZZ

UNSPSC 85612580 Extirpation of matter from left lobe liver, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under it. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure on the liver—is a clinical intervention delivered by licensed physicians in hospital settings, yet the six recent opportunities tagged to this code span independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational medical surveillance, health professional staffing coordination, surgical benefit networks, and emergency medical services for youth in custody. None of these solicitations procure or describe the hepatic surgical procedure the code nominally names. The mismatch suggests either a data-entry error in the state and local procurement systems that tagged these opportunities or a structural misalignment between how the code is indexed and how it is actually used for tagging procurement activity.

The recent opportunities themselves cluster around health plan administration, occupational health compliance, and medical staffing coordination rather than procedural surgery. Activity spans Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office, RFP for independent medical evaluation services), California (City of Long Beach, RFP for surgical procedure carve-out benefit programs; County of Santa Clara Health System, qualification solicitation for temporary health professional staffing), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation, RFP for occupational medical surveillance), Florida (Collier County, RFP for pharmacy benefit management), and Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, RFI for emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth). The code shows no substantive activity aligned with its stated procedure-level definition, and pursuit under this classification would likely prove fruitless without clarification of whether the code assignment reflects a systematic tagging error or a different operational scope than the code's taxonomy name indicates.