UNSPSC 85716100: Joints spine, percutaneous approach-part A

This class includes one or more of 16 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the joints of the spine with percutaneous approach. These surgical interventions or procedures are listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 PCS under code 0R.

UNSPSC 85716100 Joints spine, percutaneous approach—part A is a Class code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities tagged to this code reflect a marked mismatch: they include independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for transportation workers, specialty healthcare services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing. None of these solicitations involve percutaneous spine procedures, spinal devices, implants, or the medical hardware or surgical interventions the code nominally describes. The opportunities instead represent administrative healthcare services, benefits management, and occupational health programs that fall outside the scope of orthopedic or spine procedure coding.

The issuing bodies across the tagged opportunities span city retirement offices (Phoenix), municipal human resources departments (Long Beach), state transportation agencies (Washington State Department of Transportation), county juvenile probation (Harris County), county commissioners (Collier County), and regional health systems (Santa Clara County Health System). Geographic activity appears concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington, with no evidence of coherent procurement clustering around the spine-procedure code itself. Given the consistent mismatch between the code's technical definition and the actual work being solicited, this code does not represent a viable procurement category for vendors specializing in spine surgery, percutaneous techniques, or related medical devices under current state and local activity.