UNSPSC 85662336: Drainage of right knee tendon with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of right knee tendon with drainage device, 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 0L9Q00Z

UNSPSC 85662336 Drainage of right knee tendon with drainage device, open approach is a Commodity code that displays a significant mismatch between its clinical procedure name and the actual work state and local governments are soliciting under it. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical technique for knee tendon drainage—does not align with the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this designation. The solicitations instead reflect health benefit administration, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty healthcare delivery for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary clinical staffing services. These are administrative, occupational health, and workforce-augmentation services rather than a defined surgical procedure. The issuing bodies include city retirement offices, county health systems, state transportation departments, county probation departments, county commissions, and municipal health authorities—a broad span of state and local health administration entities rather than surgical providers or healthcare systems executing the specific procedure named in the code.

Geographic activity appears scattered across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington based on recent postings, with no dominant regional concentration. Representative opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026) for disability benefit determinations; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFQ for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry terminal and vessel locations (due October 9, 2026, with a pre-bid conference on August 31, 2026); the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical procedure carve-out and Centers of Excellence network management for employee health plans (due October 7, 2026); and the County of Santa Clara Health System's solicitation to establish a qualified vendor pool for temporary ancillary clinical staffing across multiple specialties (due October 7, 2026). The code shows no meaningful recent activity aligned with its stated surgical-procedure scope, suggesting either a cataloging error in how opportunities have been tagged or that actual knee tendon drainage procurement does not route through state and local procurement channels captured here.