UNSPSC 85642417: Drainage of left lower arm subcutaneous tissue and fascia, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left lower arm subcutaneous tissue and fascia, 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 0J9H3ZZ

UNSPSC 85642417 Drainage of left lower arm subcutaneous tissue and fascia, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope — a specific surgical procedure performed on a patient — does not align with what state and local governments actually buy under this taxonomy. Recent opportunities tagged with this code address occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-out programs, and emergency medical services for detained youth. None of these activities involve performing or procuring the specific surgical drainage procedure the code nominally describes.

The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the breadth of health-service procurement it has been assigned suggests either miscoding in the source data or use of this code as a catch-all within a health-services category. State and local governments purchasing under this code identifier are issuing RFPs and RFQs through municipal retirement offices (City of Phoenix), county health systems (Santa Clara), county procurement divisions (Collier County), state departments of transportation (Washington State Department of Transportation), municipal employee benefit programs (City of Long Beach), county detention facilities (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), and standalone Request for Information vehicles. No geographic concentration or repeat-buyer pattern emerges from the recent solicitations. Buyers span Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Given the code's narrow clinical definition and the absence of relevant procurement activity, firms pursuing state and local opportunities in health services should verify coding alignment with actual scope before bid pursuit.