UNSPSC 85653424: Extirpation of matter from right upper arm muscle, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from right upper arm muscle, 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 0KC70ZZ

UNSPSC 85653424 (Extirpation of matter from right upper arm muscle, open approach) is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent opportunities tagged under it do not involve orthopedic or muscular surgical extraction work. Instead, the solicitations address occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit management, pharmacy services, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency youth detention medical care — none of which align with the code's stated scope of upper arm muscle surgical procedures. This mismatch suggests either miscoding by issuing bodies or use of the code as a placeholder where no better code exists in the UNSPSC taxonomy for the actual services being procured.

The recent opportunities span diverse issuing bodies — the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (medical evaluation services), City of Long Beach (health plan surgical carve-out), Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational health surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (inpatient and emergency youth medical services), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary clinical staffing). Geographic activity includes Arizona, California, Washington, Florida, and Texas. None of these procurement actions turn on the code's nominal surgical procedure scope, indicating that state and local buyers have not used this code for its stated purpose in recent months or that the code itself does not map to actual state and local service delivery categories.