UNSPSC 85712854: Drainage of right elbow joint with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of right elbow joint with drainage device, 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 0R9L40Z

UNSPSC 85712854 Drainage of right elbow joint with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work actually being solicited under it in recent state and local procurement activity. The source shows no relevant recent opportunities aligned with orthopedic surgical procedures. Instead, the posted solicitations tagged to this code span independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational medical surveillance, surgical benefit carve-outs for Centers of Excellence, temporary health professional staffing, and emergency/specialty healthcare for youth in custody — none of which involve the specific procedural intervention the code nominally describes. This mismatch suggests either a systematic miscoding issue in the source data or a fundamental disconnect between how this code is being applied and its intended commodity scope.

The recent opportunities show issuing bodies across state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington State Ferries), counties (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, Santa Clara County Health System), and cities (City of Phoenix Retirement Office, City of Long Beach), but the solicitations themselves target administrative health services, benefits management, and staffing rather than surgical intervention procedures. Given the absence of procurement activity that matches the code's stated definition, the code presents no current market signal for firms pursuing medical device or procedure-related contracts at the state and local level.