UNSPSC 85673538: Excision of right elbow bursa and ligament, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right elbow bursa and ligament, percutaneous 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 0MB33ZZ

UNSPSC 85673538 Excision of right elbow bursa and ligament, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code whose title reflects a specific surgical procedure, yet recent state and local procurement activity tagged to it bears no relationship to that procedure. The source shows no opportunities soliciting surgical services aligned with the code's name. Instead, the recent opportunities involve occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, and surgical procedure carve-out benefit programs for employee health plans—none of which constitute the named orthopedic procedure. The code appears to be a taxonomy mismatch; state and local buyers are tagging operational healthcare services and benefit administration under a code designed for a discrete elbow surgery, suggesting either systematic miscoding or a database artifact.

Activity spans multiple states and issuing bodies: the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, due October 9, 2026), the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (independent medical evaluations for public safety pension applicants, due October 16, 2026), the City of Long Beach (surgical procedure carve-out benefit management, due October 7, 2026), the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary ancillary clinical staffing, due October 7, 2026), and Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (an RFI for emergency and specialty medical services). The posting dates range from July through September 2026, with response deadlines clustered in October. Given the taxonomy mismatch, this code does not usefully signal procurement opportunity in elbow surgery or related orthopedic services at state and local level; the miscoding obscures rather than clarifies actual buying activity.