UNSPSC 85652936: Drainage of right upper leg muscle with drainage device, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of right upper leg muscle with drainage device, 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 0K9Q30Z

UNSPSC 85652936 Drainage of right upper leg muscle with drainage device, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows a fundamental mismatch between its clinical procedure taxonomy and the state and local contracting activity it is assigned to. The recent opportunities tagged to this code do not reflect orthopedic surgical drainage procedures; instead they capture occupational health surveillance, independent medical evaluations for public safety pension benefit determinations, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing services. The code appears to be a miscoding artifact in state and local procurement systems—issuers are using it to tag health services contracts that have no procedural-drainage content whatsoever. State and local governments buying under this code are actually purchasing medical administration, employee health screening, pension-related disability evaluations, and healthcare network management rather than surgical drainage techniques.

Issuing bodies include large counties and municipalities with substantial employee health programs and public safety pension systems: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (covering fire and police pension disability medical evaluations), the City of Long Beach (employee surgical benefit management), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty care for detained youth), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management for approximately 2,400 enrolled employees), the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary ancillary health professional staffing), and the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance for ferry system employees). Recent geographic activity appears in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Representative solicitations include the Phoenix Retirement Office RFP 26001 for independent disability medical evaluations (proposals due October 16, 2026, with a five-year term and $750,000 maximum compensation), the Washington State Ferries RFP 20260825 for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry locations (proposals due October 9, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara's multiple-award vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing across thirteen ancillary clinical categories (proposals due October 7, 2026). The code does not represent a coherent procurement category and should likely be flagged for taxonomy correction rather than pursued as an active opportunity area.