UNSPSC 85713333: Removal of nonautologous tissue substitute from left metacarpocarpal joint, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of nonautologous tissue substitute from left metacarpocarpal joint, 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 0RPT0KZ

UNSPSC 85713333, Removal of nonautologous tissue substitute from left metacarpocarpal joint, open approach, is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful recent activity aligned with its stated scope in state and local procurement. The three recent opportunities posted under this code—independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix Retirement Office), surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal health plans (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical care for detained youth (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara Health System)—are administrative health services, population health management, occupational medicine, and staffing arrangements that bear no relationship to orthopedic surgical intervention on metacarpocarpal joints. The code's narrow clinical specificity does not match the breadth and nature of what issuing bodies are actually soliciting.

The mismatch between the code's surgical-procedure taxonomy and the health services, benefits administration, and staffing work actually tagged in these opportunities suggests either systematic miscoding by posting jurisdictions or a data-quality artifact. State and local procurement offices issuing under this code in recent months include the City of Phoenix (Arizona), City of Long Beach (California), Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County (Texas), Collier County (Florida), and Santa Clara County (California). No identifiable pattern of repeat buyers or concentration in particular states emerges from the sample. No opportunities genuinely soliciting the removal of tissue substitutes from hand joints appear in the recent record.