UNSPSC 85662318: Excision of right knee tendon, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of 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 0LBQ0ZZ

UNSPSC 85662318 Excision of right knee tendon, open approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the state and local procurement activity currently being solicited under it. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the recent opportunities posted against it encompass occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, specialty and emergency medical services for youth in detention, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve knee tendon excision or orthopedic surgery procurement. This mismatch suggests the code has been misapplied or is serving as a catch-all placeholder for healthcare-related state and local solicitations that fall outside more precisely defined UNSPSC categories.

The recent opportunities span diverse issuing bodies including state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county governments (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, County of Santa Clara), and cities (City of Phoenix, City of Long Beach), with activity concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Washington. Representative recent solicitations include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP (due October 16, 2026, $750,000 maximum over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP (due October 9, 2026, with a pre-bid conference August 31, 2026), the City of Long Beach's surgical benefit carve-out RFP (due October 7, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's temporary health professional staffing RFSQ (due October 7, 2026). Given the wide divergence between the code's stated scope and the actual work being bought, firms relying on this code for procurement targeting should verify alignment with the specific healthcare service category they intend to pursue rather than treating the code itself as a reliable taxonomy marker.