UNSPSC 85642005: Excision of left upper leg subcutaneous tissue and fascia, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left upper leg subcutaneous tissue and fascia, 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 0JBM0ZZ

UNSPSC 85642005 Excision of left upper leg subcutaneous tissue and fascia, open approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a surgical procedure, but the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code show no alignment with orthopedic or surgical services procurement. The opportunities instead reflect healthcare management and administrative services: inmate prison medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care platforms, peer support services for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical director engagement. The code shows a mismatch between its clinical procedure name and the actual work being solicited by state and local issuers, indicating either a data-entry error in how these opportunities were tagged or a systematic miscategorization within the state procurement systems posting them.

The recent opportunities span three states — Georgia (Muscogee County Prison inmate medical services, RFP due May 15, 2026), Florida (Collier County pharmacy benefit management and Monroe County virtual care, RFP due April 9, 2026 and April 16, 2026 respectively), and California (San Mateo County peer support services, RFP due July 2, 2025, and Santa Monica Fire Department medical director services, RFP due October 16, 2025) — with issuers including county commissioners, county health departments, consolidated city governments, and special-purpose districts. Because the code's nominal scope bears no relation to the opportunities posted, business development professionals evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for procurement planning purposes and flag the categorization discrepancy with procurement offices in jurisdictions showing activity, as the relevant codes for these healthcare and employee-benefits solicitations lie elsewhere in the UNSPSC taxonomy.