UNSPSC 85673423: Excision of left shoulder bursa and ligament, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of left shoulder 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 0MB20ZZ

UNSPSC 85673423 Excision of left shoulder bursa and ligament, open approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the six recent opportunities posted under this classification span occupational health surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, specialty and emergency medical services for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve the defined surgical procedure. State and local procurement offices have tagged these opportunities with this UNSPSC code despite their administrative, contracting, or preventive-care focus rather than operative orthopedic intervention.

The issuing bodies include city retirement offices (City of Phoenix), municipal health benefits programs (City of Long Beach), state transportation departments (Washington State Department of Transportation on behalf of Washington State Ferries), county juvenile justice systems (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), county government health consortiums (Collier County Board of County Commissioners), and regional health systems (County of Santa Clara Health System). Geographic spread includes Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, with no clear concentration. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services with a due date of October 16, 2026 and a five-year contract ceiling of $750,000, and the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 Washington ferry locations with proposals due October 9, 2026. The code shows material activity volume across diverse service categories, but the mismatch between the surgical-procedure code name and the administrative and occupational-health services actually being procured suggests either systematic misclassification in state procurement systems or a divergence between UNSPSC taxonomy design and real-world state and local buying practice.