UNSPSC 85694311: Insertion of hybrid external fixation device into left ulna, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to insertion of hybrid external fixation device into left ulna, 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 0PHL4DZ

UNSPSC 85694311, Insertion of hybrid external fixation device into left ulna, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities posted under this code—independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical carve-out benefits for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—are administrative healthcare and benefits-management services fundamentally disconnected from orthopedic surgical device procurement or insertion procedures. The code's clinical specificity (a discrete surgical intervention on a named bone using a named device and approach) does not align with the administrative and staffing services the opportunities actually describe, suggesting either systematic miscoding in the state and local procurement system or that this particular code sees no active market activity among state and local buyers.

State and local procurement systems occasionally tag opportunities with codes that do not match the work being solicited, particularly when healthcare services cross multiple administrative and clinical boundaries. In this case, the mismatch is pronounced enough to signal that vendors evaluating this code should treat it as dormant for practical business-development purposes and investigate whether the actual state and local procurement activity falls under a parent Family or Class code, a related surgical-device code, or a healthcare-administration code if the opportunities reflect the buyer's true sourcing intent.