UNSPSC 85695501: Revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in left carpal, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in left carpal, 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 0PWN3KZ

UNSPSC 85695501 Revision of nonautologous tissue substitute in left carpal, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally refers to a specific orthopedic surgical procedure, but the six recent opportunities posted under this classification—independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—reflect no meaningful connection to tissue-substitute surgery or carpal procedures. The mismatch between the code's technical surgical scope and the actual medical-management and staffing services being solicited suggests either systematic miscoding in state and local procurement systems or that this Commodity code is not being used as intended for its stated procedure type.

The issuing bodies span multiple government sectors: a municipal pension office (City of Phoenix), a city health benefits administrator (City of Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile justice system (Harris County), a county human resources and health consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara County). Geographic activity appears across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington with no evident concentration. Because the solicitations do not reflect genuine demand for carpal tissue-substitute surgery or related orthopedic procedures, the code does not present a meaningful pursuit opportunity in state and local procurement; firms should treat the code as inactive for this service line and flag the taxonomy inconsistency with procurement offices if engaging these jurisdictions on related medical services.