UNSPSC 85723833: Removal of spacer from right knee joint, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of spacer from right knee 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 0SPC38Z

UNSPSC 85723833 Removal of spacer from right knee joint, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the state and local opportunities currently posted under it. The recent solicitations tagged with this code—independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational medical surveillance, temporary health professional staffing, and surgical benefit carve-outs for city employees—are administrative, occupational-health, and procurement services with no connection to orthopedic surgical procedures or knee-joint interventions. The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the actual scope of work being bought suggests either systematic misclassification by issuing bodies or a breakdown in how this code is applied in state and local procurement systems.

The issuing bodies in the recent opportunities block span a broad jurisdictional mix: city retirement offices (City of Phoenix), municipal benefits programs (City of Long Beach), state transportation departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county health systems (County of Santa Clara, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), and county employee-benefits consortia (Collier County Board of County Commissioners). Geographic spread includes Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. None of these opportunities relate to orthopedic surgical procedures, and no prospective vendor in medical device, surgical services, or orthopedic supply should treat this code as a signal of active state and local procurement demand for knee-joint removal procedures. The code appears dormant or misapplied in current state and local contracting activity.