UNSPSC 85653523: Excision of left upper arm muscle, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left upper arm muscle, 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 0KB83ZZ

UNSPSC 85653523 Excision of left upper arm muscle, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code whose title does not align with the state and local procurement opportunities currently tagged under it. The recent solicitations posted under this code reflect a broad range of healthcare services—inmate medical and pharmacy management, pharmacy benefit administration for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support services, and medical direction for fire department EMS programs—none of which involve surgical excision procedures or clinical interventions at the level of specificity the code name suggests. The mismatch indicates either miscoding in the state and local procurement systems or that this code has been repurposed as a catch-all for healthcare contracting activity. The issuing bodies are county governments and special-purpose health districts, with no federal or state-level health agency posting under this code in the recent block. The work is substantially administrative and operational—benefit management, care coordination, workforce support, and medical oversight—rather than surgical or clinical procedure-specific services.

Activity appears concentrated in Florida, Georgia, and California, with Columbus Consolidated Government (Muscogee County Prison), Collier County Board of County Commissioners, Monroe County Board of County Commissioners, San Mateo County Health BHRS, and Santa Monica Fire Department all posting RFPs between late February and mid-April 2026. Representative opportunities include the Columbus Consolidated Government's RFP No. 26-0008 (due May 15, 2026) for comprehensive inmate medical and pharmacy services at approximately $95,537.71 monthly under the incumbent contract; Collier County's RFP 25-8414 (due April 9, 2026) for pharmacy benefit management services with historical spending of approximately $8.7 million annually; and Monroe County's RFP for virtual primary and urgent care services (due April 16, 2026) with a planned October 1, 2026 effective date. All three are traditional county RFPs with standard insurance, compliance, and evaluation criteria; none identify set-asides or disadvantaged-enterprise restrictions. Given the code's apparent misalignment with its stated scope and the absence of surgical or procedure-specific contracting, treating this code as a reliable signal for future opportunity targeting carries significant risk.