UNSPSC 85663405: Repair left upper arm tendon, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to repair left upper arm 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 0LQ40ZZ

UNSPSC 85663405 Repair left upper arm tendon, open approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a surgical procedure, but recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows minimal relevance to orthopedic surgery. The most recent opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, health professional temporary staffing, independent medical evaluations for disability pension determinations, and surgical carve-out benefit programs — none of which align with the code's stated scope of upper extremity tendon repair. State and local procurement offices appear to have applied this code inconsistently or incorrectly to broader healthcare administration and benefit-management solicitations rather than to actual surgical procedures. Issuing bodies include state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county governments (Harris County, Santa Clara County, Collier County), and municipal entities (City of Phoenix, City of Long Beach), but no pattern of repeat buying for the code's nominal orthopedic scope exists in the recent record.

Geographic activity appears concentrated in the Southwest and Pacific regions, with solicitations from Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Washington. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026) and the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry terminals statewide (due October 9, 2026 with a pre-bid conference scheduled for August 31, 2026). The City of Long Beach issued an RFP for surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits through Centers of Excellence (due October 7, 2026), and Santa Clara County Health System solicited a qualified vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing across multiple ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026). The code shows no clear market alignment with its stated UNSPSC definition, and opportunities appear better indexed to healthcare administration and occupational health codes than to surgical procedure procurement.