UNSPSC 85691610: Supplement left glenoid cavity with synthetic substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left glenoid cavity with synthetic substitute, 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 0PU83JZ

UNSPSC 85691610 Supplement left glenoid cavity with synthetic substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no material alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code describes a specific orthopedic surgical procedure—implantation of a synthetic glenoid component via percutaneous approach—but the recent opportunities tagged to this code cover inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support for peer workers, and fire department medical direction. None of these solicitations involve orthopedic implants, surgical procedures, or glenoid cavity supplementation. State and local procurement offices appear to have misclassified these opportunities under a taxonomy code fundamentally unrelated to the work being bought. The disconnect suggests either a data-quality issue at the source or systematic miscoding of health services contracts under surgical-procedure codes.

The recent opportunities themselves—drawn from Georgia, Florida, and California jurisdictions—reflect the breadth of health-related services state and local bodies purchase, ranging from correctional healthcare (Columbus Consolidated Government, Muscogee County Prison) to employee health benefits (Collier County, Monroe County) to behavioral health pilots (San Mateo County) to fire department medical oversight (Santa Monica). These are legitimate procurement activities, but they bear no relationship to orthopedic device procurement or implant supply. Firms evaluating this code for state and local opportunity pipeline should treat it as inactive for procurement purposes and flag the classification mismatch with their procurement intelligence vendor.