UNSPSC 85762256: Removal of infusion device from left pleural cavity, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of infusion device from left pleural cavity, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0WPB43Z

UNSPSC 85762256 Removal of infusion device from left pleural cavity, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity. The code's nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure for pleural cavity intervention—does not align with the state and local opportunities recently tagged under it. The recent solicitations are for independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-out programs, occupational medical surveillance, emergency and specialty medical services for youth in custody, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—none of which involve pleural cavity procedures or procedural coding in the clinical sense the UNSPSC designation implies.

The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the actual scope of posted opportunities suggests either a classification error in how issuing bodies have tagged these solicitations or that the code is being used to bucket broader healthcare services procurement rather than discrete procedural interventions. Issuers include a municipal retirement office (City of Phoenix), a city government (City of Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County), a county board of commissioners (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara). Without recent solicitations that actually address pleural cavity device removal or comparable invasive procedural services, this code does not present a clear procurement pattern for vendors pursuing state and local contracts in that clinical domain.