UNSPSC 85721108: Revision of drainage device in left toe phalangeal joint, external approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of drainage device in left toe phalangeal joint, external 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 0SWQX0Z

UNSPSC 85721108 Revision of drainage device in left toe phalangeal joint, external approach is a Commodity code whose stated name describes an orthopedic surgical procedure, yet the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it are unrelated to phalangeal joint surgery and do not represent purchasing activity aligned with the code's nominal scope. The opportunities include independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations, surgical center-of-excellence carve-out benefits 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 revision of drainage devices, phalangeal joints, or the orthopedic procedural work the code nominally describes. The mismatch indicates this code shows little relevant recent state and local procurement activity in its actual scope.

The issuing bodies across the tagged opportunities span diverse public sectors: municipal retirement offices (City of Phoenix), city human resources departments (City of Long Beach), state transportation agencies (Washington State Department of Transportation), county juvenile justice (Harris County), county benefits administration (Collier County), and county health systems (Santa Clara County), with geographies concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. The opportunities themselves—ranging from $750,000 five-year fixed contracts for medical evaluation through five-year pharmacy management arrangements with historical annual spend near $8.7 million and temporary staffing qualification pools—are issued as RFPs with response windows primarily in September and October 2026. The lack of substantive phalangeal-joint or orthopedic-drainage-device procurement in the data suggests vendors working in that space should not rely on this code's recent activity signals and should verify actual category assignments before allocating pursuit resources.