UNSPSC 85716510: Excision of thoracolumbar vertebral joint, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of thoracolumbar vertebral joint, 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 0RBA3ZZ

UNSPSC 85716510 Excision of thoracolumbar vertebral joint, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities tagged under this code do not solicit surgical procedures or clinical interventions matching the code's nominal scope. Instead, the tagged opportunities reflect a mismatch: they include independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, occupational health surveillance programs, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing coordination, surgical benefit carve-out program administration, and emergency medical services inquiry for youth detention. None of these represent procurement of the specific thoracolumbar vertebral joint excision procedure the code nominally describes. State and local agencies do not appear to use this Commodity code to solicit actual surgical procedures; the tagging appears to reflect either classification error or use of the code to flag health services and medical evaluation work broadly.

The issuing bodies in the recent opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (pension disability evaluations), the City of Long Beach (surgical benefit administration), the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary health professional staffing). Geographic activity spans Arizona, California, Washington, Florida, and Texas. The code shows no meaningful procurement signal for the surgical procedure itself and should not be relied upon for business development targeting actual spine surgery opportunities in the state and local market.