UNSPSC 85762270: Removal of drainage device from chest wall, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to removal of drainage device from chest wall, 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 0WP840Z

UNSPSC 85762270 "Removal of drainage device from chest wall, percutaneous endoscopic approach" is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under it. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the six most recent solicitations tagged to this code solicit medical staffing, occupational health surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, pension disability medical evaluations, surgical carve-out networks, and emergency youth detention healthcare—none of which involve the removal of chest wall drainage devices or percutaneous endoscopic approaches. The mismatch suggests either a data quality issue in how the code was assigned to these opportunities or a significant drift between the code's clinical definition and the work state and local governments are actually procuring under this number.

The issuing bodies include a municipal retirement office (City of Phoenix), city employee benefits programs (City of Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile justice system (Harris County), a county health benefits consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara County)—a mix spanning pension administration, employee benefits contracting, occupational health compliance, and public safety healthcare. Without recent opportunities that actually align with the code's stated scope, a business development professional evaluating this code should treat the current record as unreliable for procurement forecasting or opportunity identification. The geographic spread includes Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Washington, but this distribution reflects general state and local procurement activity rather than genuine demand under the code's nominal commodity definition.