UNSPSC 85701240: Excision of right acetabulum, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of right acetabulum, open 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 0QB40ZZ

UNSPSC 85701240 (Excision of right acetabulum, open approach), a Commodity code, does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the recent opportunities posted under this code involve medical evaluation services, occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and center-of-excellence surgical carve-out programs — none of which involve acetabular excision or are surgical procedure codes at all. The mismatch suggests either a data-entry error in how opportunities were tagged or a fundamental misalignment between the code's intended scope and how it is being applied in practice. State and local procurement systems do occasionally tag opportunities with codes that do not match the work being bought, and this code appears to be an example.

The recent opportunities under this code span diverse issuing bodies: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (disability medical evaluations), the City of Long Beach (surgical benefits management), the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (specialty medical services for youth in custody), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary health professional staffing). These are distinct from surgical procedure procurement. Given the complete absence of relevant recent activity under the code's stated commodity definition, pursuit of this code is not warranted.