UNSPSC 85702953: Reposition left tibia, external approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to reposition left tibia, external 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 0QSHXZZ

UNSPSC 85702953, Reposition left tibia, external approach, is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific orthopedic surgical procedure; however, the opportunities posted under this code over the past three months involve occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit medical evaluations, surgical procedure carve-out benefit administration, temporary health professional staffing, pharmacy benefit management, and specialty emergency medical services for youth in custody. None of these opportunities involve direct procurement of orthopedic repositioning surgery or related clinical services. The code appears to be a taxonomic mismatch applied by issuing bodies to health services RFPs and RFQs that fall outside orthopedic surgical procedure supply or delivery.

No solicitations under UNSPSC 85702953 reflect the actual scope of the code name. Activity in the source spans Arizona (City of Phoenix, independent medical evaluation RFP), California (City of Long Beach surgical carve-out RFP and Santa Clara County temporary health professional staffing RFQ), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation occupational medical surveillance RFP), Florida (Collier County pharmacy benefit management RFP), and Texas (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department emergency and specialty medical services RFI), but none of these procurements align with orthopedic repositioning or surgical intervention delivery. The code does not appear to be actively used for its stated purpose in current state and local procurement.