UNSPSC 85672935: Drainage of left upper extremity bursa and ligament with drainage device, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left upper extremity bursa and ligament 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 0M9B00Z

UNSPSC 85672935, Drainage of left upper extremity bursa and ligament with drainage device, open approach, is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code's clinical procedure scope—a surgical drainage technique for upper extremity soft-tissue pathology—bears no relationship to the six recent state and local opportunities tagged to this code, which encompass independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational medical surveillance, specialty surgical carve-outs for employee health plans, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency medical services for detained youth. State and local procurement systems appear to have misclassified these opportunities under a procedure code that describes a specific operative intervention rather than the administrative or staffing services actually being procured.

The issuing bodies in the recent opportunities include a city pension board (Phoenix), two large city employee health programs (Long Beach, Collier County), a state transportation agency (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile justice system (Harris County), and a regional health system (Santa Clara County). The geographic spread spans Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, with no pattern of concentration in any single state or jurisdiction. No opportunities in the source material actually solicit for the drainage procedure or related operative clinical services; all six represent administrative healthcare contracting, occupational health programs, or temporary clinical staffing—categories unrelated to the code's nominal scope. A business development professional evaluating this code should treat the recent activity as a data-quality signal rather than a market indicator for the actual procedure it names.