UNSPSC 85663450: Drainage of left upper arm tendon with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left upper arm 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 0L9400Z

UNSPSC 85663450 Drainage of left upper arm tendon with drainage device, open approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure (orthopedic drainage of the left upper arm tendon with an open approach), but the six recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code span independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefits management, occupational medical surveillance, emergency youth detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—none of which align with procurement of a narrowly defined surgical procedure or device. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding of opportunities by the issuing bodies or use of this code as a catch-all for medical services that lack a more precise UNSPSC classification.

State and local purchasing offices do not typically solicit individual surgical procedures as procurement commodities; they purchase healthcare services, staffing, benefits administration, and clinical network management. The recent opportunities represent issuing bodies across multiple jurisdictions (City of Phoenix, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County, and Collier County) and state health systems, but none of their solicitations involve the specific surgical service or device the code nominally names. Vendors should treat this code as dormant for state and local contracting purposes and monitor the broader medical services and healthcare staffing codes (such as family-level medical staffing or administrative healthcare support) where actual government procurement activity occurs.