UNSPSC 85711576: Removal of spacer from right sternoclavicular joint, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of spacer from right sternoclavicular joint, 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 0RPE48Z

UNSPSC 85711576 Removal of spacer from right sternoclavicular joint, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code whose nominal scope—a specific orthopedic surgical procedure—bears no relationship to the medical and health services state and local governments are actually procuring under it. The recent opportunities tagged to this code reveal a mismatch: issuers are posting RFPs and RFQs for occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-outs, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, emergency youth detention medical services, and independent medical examinations. None of these services involve the joint-spacer removal procedure the code nominally describes. The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its stated scope.

State and local governments appear to have misfiled miscellaneous health-benefit administration and occupational-medicine solicitations under this orthopedic procedure code, suggesting either a taxonomic error in the posting system or a data-entry anomaly at the issuing agencies. The issuers involved—the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach, Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, and County of Santa Clara Health System—span multiple jurisdictions and procurement types (RFP, RFQ, RFI) across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington between July and September 2026. The work being solicited is administrative, occupational-health, and benefit-management services, not surgical procedures. A firm evaluating this code for orthopedic-procedure sales should disregard the recent-opportunities block as off-topic and seek clarification from state and local procurement offices on the correct UNSPSC classification for joint-surgery contracting.