UNSPSC 85673366: Reattachment of right hand bursa and ligament, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to reattachment of right hand bursa and ligament, 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 0MM70ZZ

UNSPSC 85673366 Reattachment of right hand bursa and ligament, open approach is a Commodity code that shows a significant mismatch between its nominal procedural scope and actual state and local procurement activity. The recent solicitations tagged under this code do not involve surgical procedures or orthopedic interventions. Instead, the code is being applied to a broad range of occupational health, disability medical evaluation, pharmacy benefit management, and health professional staffing services that fall outside the code's clinical procedural definition. State and local issuing bodies — city retirement offices, county health systems, state transportation departments, and county juvenile probation departments — are using this code to tag solicitations for medical administration, surveillance, and workforce staffing rather than hand surgery or ligament repair. This misapplication suggests either a classification error in how opportunities are being coded at the source level or an inconsistency in how the taxonomy is being deployed across jurisdictions.

The most recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026, $750,000 over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFQ for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry system locations (due October 9, 2026), the City of Long Beach's RFP for a surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefit program for its Anthem PPO plan (due October 7, 2026), Santa Clara County Health System's RFQ to establish a temporary health professional staffing qualified vendor pool across ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026), and Collier County's RFP for pharmacy benefit management services covering approximately 2,400 employees and 4,800 covered members with historical annual spending of $8.7 million (deadline April 9, 2026, since already passed). The code shows recent activity across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, but the opportunities span health plan administration, occupational medicine, and clinical staffing rather than orthopedic surgery. Vendors evaluating this code should recognize that it currently reflects administrative health services procurement, not the surgical procedures the code's name suggests.