UNSPSC 85713679: Supplement left metacarpocarpal joint with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement left metacarpocarpal joint with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous 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 0RUT37Z

UNSPSC 85713679 Supplement left metacarpocarpal joint with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific orthopedic surgical procedure—supplementing the left metacarpocarpal joint with autologous tissue via percutaneous approach—yet the recent opportunities tagged under this code do not solicit that procedure or anything materially related to it. Instead, the most-recent-state-local-contract-opportunities block contains six solicitations spanning independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out programs for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve orthopedic joint-supplementation procedures, autologous tissue grafts, or percutaneous surgical techniques. The mismatch suggests that state and local procurement offices have incorrectly tagged these health-services opportunities under an orthopedic procedure code, or that the code taxonomy application is inconsistent across issuing bodies.

Given this misclassification, the code shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity for the actual service it names. Firms pursuing orthopedic joint-supplementation work or autologous tissue-substitute procedures should verify code alignment directly with individual issuing bodies rather than relying on this code's recent-opportunity signals. The underlying health-services opportunities—disability medical evaluations, employee surgical benefits, occupational surveillance, detention healthcare, pharmacy management, and clinical staffing—are being solicited under other codes and by entities including 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 Santa Clara County Health System, but those activities fall outside the scope of the metacarpocarpal-joint procedure this code describes.