UNSPSC 85663434: Excision of right hand tendon, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right hand 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 0LB70ZZ

UNSPSC 85663434 Excision of right hand tendon, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local government procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure — excision of right hand tendon via open surgical approach — but the recent opportunities tagged under this code solicit medical evaluation services, occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, surgical procedure carve-out networks, and temporary health professional staffing, none of which represent surgical excision procedures. The mismatch suggests either miscategorization in source records or systematic coding drift in how state and local procurement offices tag healthcare-related solicitations under this UNSPSC designation.

The recent opportunities span issuing bodies including a municipal retirement office (City of Phoenix), a large city employee benefits program (City of Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County), a county health consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara County), indicating broad use of healthcare procurement codes across government tiers. Geographic activity covers Arizona, California, Florida, Washington, and Texas. Representative recent solicitations include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026) managing disability determinations for public safety pension boards; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry system locations (due October 9, 2026, pre-bid August 31, 2026); and Santa Clara County Health System's non-exclusive multiple-award vehicle for temporary health professional staffing (due October 7, 2026). The code shows activity but the work being solicited does not correspond to the surgical procedure the code describes.