UNSPSC 85662125: Supplement left knee tendon with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left knee tendon with nonautologous tissue substitute, 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 0LUR0KZ

UNSPSC 85662125, Supplement left knee tendon with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach, is a Commodity code that describes a specific orthopedic surgical procedure. Recent state and local procurement activity tagged under this code does not reflect the code's nominal scope. The most-recent-state-local-contract-opportunities block contains six solicitations spanning independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational medical surveillance, specialty surgical carve-out programs, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth—none of which align with knee-tendon augmentation procedures or surgical supply procurement. This mismatch suggests the code may have been applied erroneously in the source data or that state and local procurement offices are using the code as a broader catchall for medical services rather than for the specific orthopedic implant or surgical procedure the code nominally describes.

The geographic distribution of the recent opportunities spans Arizona (City of Phoenix Retirement Office), California (City of Long Beach, County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Florida (Collier County), and Texas (Harris County), with issuing bodies including city retirement offices, city procurement departments, county commissioners' offices, health systems, and a state transportation department. Without recent opportunities that clearly fall within the code's stated surgical-procedure scope, the code shows little relevant activity for firms pursuing orthopedic implant or surgical-supply contracts at the state and local level. Procurement professionals evaluating this code should verify the tagging accuracy in source systems and consider whether opportunities related to orthopedic implants or knee-tendon surgeries may be classified under different UNSPSC codes in active state and local markets.