UNSPSC 85723969: Extirpation of matter from left knee joint, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from left 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 0SCD3ZZ

UNSPSC 85723969 Extirpation of matter from left knee joint, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code whose nominal scope — a specific orthopedic surgical procedure — bears no meaningful relationship to the state and local contract opportunities currently tagged under it. The recent solicitations capture a range of health-system administrative and staffing services: independent medical evaluation and disability record summarization for pension boards, surgical benefit carve-out management for municipal employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for state transportation workers, emergency and specialty inpatient care coordination for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary ancillary clinical staffing. None of these activities involve the orthopedic extirpation procedure the code nominally describes. The mismatch suggests either a systematic classification error in how state and local procurement offices are tagging these health-system opportunities, or a technical artifact in how the opportunities were indexed to this particular code.

The issuing bodies are geographically dispersed and operationally diverse: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona), City of Long Beach (California), Washington State Department of Transportation, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and Santa Clara County Health System (California). The recent solicitations include an RFP from Phoenix due October 16, 2026 for disability medical evaluation services with a five-year term and $750,000 maximum compensation; a Long Beach RFP due October 7, 2026 for surgical benefit networks targeting knee, hip, spine, and other procedure categories; a Washington State Ferries RFQ due October 9, 2026 for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry system locations; a Harris County RFI due September 25, 2026 for emergency and specialty medical services for youth in custody; a Collier County RFP (deadline April 9, 2026, already passed) for pharmacy benefit management on approximately $8.7 million annual spend; and a Santa Clara County non-exclusive qualified-vendor pool solicitation due October 7, 2026 for temporary staffing across thirteen ancillary clinical categories. Because the code's nominal scope does not align with any of these opportunities, the code itself should not be considered an active signal for orthopedic surgical procurement at the state and local level.