UNSPSC 85673730: Excision of right elbow bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right elbow 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 0MB34ZZ

UNSPSC 85673730, Excision of right elbow bursa and ligament, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that shows a substantial mismatch between its clinical procedural nomenclature and recent state and local procurement activity. The code's stated scope—a specific surgical procedure on the elbow—does not align with the actual work being solicited by state and local governments under this classification. Recent opportunities tagged to the code involve occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, Centers of Excellence surgical networks, and youth detention healthcare services—none of which involve the specific elbow procedure named in the code. The issuing bodies across recent solicitations include state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county health systems and human services agencies (Santa Clara County Health System, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners), cities (Phoenix, Long Beach), and a county retirement office (Phoenix). This diversity reflects fragmented procurement across multiple jurisdictional types and functional areas, but the activity is not driven by procurement of the coded procedure itself.

The geographic spread of recent activity spans Arizona (Phoenix), California (Long Beach, Collier County), Washington (WSDOT), and Texas (Harris County), with no clear concentration in any single state or region. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026, $750,000 maximum over five years), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFQ for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry terminals (due October 9, 2026), the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits through Centers of Excellence (due October 7, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's RFQ to establish a qualified vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing (due October 7, 2026). The code appears to be incorrectly applied in the source material; procurement opportunities under this code should be evaluated against a healthcare procedural lens rather than the broad occupational health and benefits-administration work currently tagged to it.