UNSPSC 85662254: Release right knee tendon, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release right knee tendon, 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 0LNQ0ZZ

UNSPSC 85662254 Release right knee tendon, open approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specific orthopedic surgical procedure; however, the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code bear no clear relationship to surgical intervention itself. Instead, the code appears to be capturing health services procurement across a broad range of medical evaluation, occupational surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, and health professional staffing activities — suggesting either a systematic miscoding issue or a jurisdiction-specific taxonomy adaptation that divorces the code number from its formal definition. The actual work being solicited spans independent medical evaluations for disability pension determinations, occupational health surveillance for state ferry employees, surgical benefit carve-out networks for municipal employees, specialty and emergency medical services for detained youth, and temporary health professional staffing across ancillary clinical categories. Issuing bodies include city retirement offices, county health systems and probation departments, state transportation agencies, and municipal human resources divisions — a mix of benefit administrators, operational health programs, and institutional healthcare providers rather than surgical service vendors.

Geographic activity is concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, with the most recent and detailed solicitations originating from Phoenix, Long Beach, Tacoma (Washington State Ferries), Harris County (Texas), Naples (Collier County, Florida), and San Jose (Santa Clara County, California). Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (RTMRFP26001, due October 16, 2026, $750,000 over five years) to support disability pension determinations for approximately 75 annual applications; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry terminals (RFP20260825, due October 9, 2026) requiring board-certified occupational medicine physicians; the City of Long Beach's RFP for a surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefit program (HR26753, due October 7, 2026, targeting Centers of Excellence for orthopedic, spine, knee, and hip procedures) for approximately 3,800 municipal employees and retirees; and the County of Santa Clara Health System's RFSQ for temporary health professional staffing across multiple ancillary categories (due October 7, 2026, five-year qualified list vehicle with no guaranteed volume). The disconnect between the code's nominal surgical scope and the health-services-administration and occupational-surveillance work actually being solicited suggests this code either requires vendor clarification with individual jurisdictions or reflects a procurement-system artifact rather than a productive market segment for surgical specialists.