UNSPSC 85671740: Destruction of left lower extremity bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left lower extremity bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0M5W4ZZ

UNSPSC 85671740 Destruction of left lower extremity bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work actually being solicited in recent state and local opportunities tagged under it. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure, but the recent opportunities under this code involve procurement of occupational medical surveillance services, independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, specialty surgical benefits carve-out administration, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which correspond to orthopedic procedural services. The mismatch suggests a classification error in how opportunities have been tagged to this code rather than a viable procurement category for business development purposes under the stated UNSPSC designation.

The geographic spread of tagged opportunities includes Washington State (Washington State Department of Transportation occupational medical surveillance), Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Texas (Harris County), and Florida (Collier County), but the diversity of service types across these jurisdictions and the fundamental disconnect between the code's orthopedic surgical scope and the actual scope of solicited services indicates that this code does not serve as a reliable filter for state and local procurement activity in any coherent product or service line.