UNSPSC 85672354: Division of right knee bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to division of right knee 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 0M8N4ZZ

UNSPSC 85672354, Division of right knee bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that does not match the state and local procurement opportunities recently tagged under it. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure performed by a physician in a clinical setting; however, the recent opportunities posted under this code cover occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out administration, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth. None of these services involve the performance of orthopedic knee surgery or the procedural work the code's name describes.

The mismatch signals a classification error in the tagging systems used by the issuing bodies — the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, and County of Santa Clara Health System have applied this code to administrative and occupational health services rather than to actual surgical procedures. State and local procurement offices do solicit medical services, but the code as currently active does not reflect genuine market demand for orthopedic knee bursa and ligament division procedures; the recent activity reported here is administrative and staffing-related, not surgical. Vendors pursuing state and local contracts under this code should treat it as dormant for procurement purposes and verify the correct commodity or service code through direct contact with issuing body procurement offices before investing in proposal preparation.