UNSPSC 85716009: Excision of thoracolumbar vertebral disc, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of thoracolumbar vertebral disc, 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 0RBB0ZZ

UNSPSC 85716009, Excision of thoracolumbar vertebral disc, open approach, is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The six opportunities posted between July and September 2026 and tagged with this code—independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical procedure carve-out benefits for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for state ferry workers, emergency medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—involve neither thoracic or lumbar spine surgery nor any surgical procedure aligned with the code's nominal scope. State and local procurement systems appear to have applied this surgical-procedure code as a catch-all classification for health-care and medical services contracting without regard to procedure specificity. The code does not reflect actual surgical procurement activity in recent state and local contract opportunities.

No state or local government solicitation in the dataset targets spine surgery services, surgical instrumentation, post-operative care contracting, or any other work recognizably within the code's definition. The mismatch between the code's medical taxonomy and the actual health-care services state and local agencies are buying suggests that buyers using this code may be working from automated or legacy classification systems that do not align procurement notices with clinical procedure definitions. For business development professionals evaluating this code, the recent-opportunity record does not support pursuit on the basis of actual market demand for thoracolumbar discectomy services or related surgical contracting.