UNSPSC 85695500: Short bones hand, percutaneous approach

This class includes one or more of 17 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the short bones of the hand with percutaneous approach. These surgical interventions or procedures are listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 PCS under code 0P.

UNSPSC 85695500 Short bones hand, percutaneous approach is a Class code that shows minimal alignment between its nominal medical-procedure scope and the recent state and local contracting activity. The five most recent opportunities tagged under this code do not solicit procedures on hand bones; instead, they address comprehensive inmate healthcare delivery, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary care and urgent care services, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction. The source documents do not indicate that state and local procurement offices are actually buying percutaneous hand bone procedures under this code. No recent opportunities match the code's stated clinical procedure scope, suggesting either a systematic tagging error in the underlying procurement database or that the code has been misapplied to broader healthcare service categories that do not align with orthopedic interventions.

The issuing bodies represented include a county government (Muscogee County, Georgia), two county board of commissioners procurement offices serving health and HR divisions (Collier County, Florida and Monroe County, Florida), a county behavioral health agency (San Mateo County, California), and a municipal fire department (Santa Monica, California). The geographic spread spans Florida, Georgia, and California, with no concentration in any single state. Because the recent opportunities do not represent work actually being purchased under the code's stated definition, business development professionals should treat this code as inactive for procurement-planning purposes and verify any future opportunities against the actual scope of work before committing pursuit resources.