UNSPSC 85622310: Resection of right thyroid gland lobe, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to resection of right thyroid gland lobe, open 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 0GTH0ZZ

UNSPSC 85622310 Resection of right thyroid gland lobe, open approach is a Commodity code that carries no relevance to state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure—removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland via open surgical approach—a clinical intervention that does not map to any goods or services state and local governments procure through standard purchasing channels. The recent opportunities posted under this code are entirely misaligned: they include inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county prison, pharmacy benefit management for a county health plan, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support programming for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction. None of these involve thyroid surgery or surgical resection of any kind.

State and local procurement offices do not solicit surgical procedures as line-item purchases or contracts. This code appears to reflect a data-quality issue in the source system—either a miscoding of opportunities that should carry different UNSPSC tags, or a category definition that does not match actual state and local buying patterns. The disconnect is complete: the code's nominal scope (a specific surgical procedure) bears no relationship to the opportunities attributed to it (comprehensive healthcare service delivery, pharmacy management, virtual care platforms, peer support, and medical direction). This code should not be pursued for state and local business development purposes.