UNSPSC 85771135: Inspection of left upper arm, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to inspection of left upper arm, open 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 0XJ90ZZ

UNSPSC 85771135 Inspection of left upper arm, open approach is a Commodity code that bears no meaningful relationship to the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The code describes a specific surgical procedure — the clinical examination of the left upper arm via open surgical approach — yet the six opportunities posted under this code in the past two months solicit occupational medical surveillance, disability benefit evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical procedure carve-out networks, and youth detention medical services. None of these solicitations involve inspection of the left upper arm or any arm-specific surgical procedure. The code's nominal scope and the actual work state and local governments are buying under it do not align, indicating either systematic miscoding in the source data or misclassification of these opportunities at intake.

The issuing bodies represent a mix of county, state, and municipal health and human services agencies across multiple states: the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSF), the City of Phoenix Retirement Office, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, the City of Long Beach, Collier County Board of County Commissioners, and the County of Santa Clara Health System. The recent activity is distributed across Washington, Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Given the mismatch between the code's clinical definition and the actual solicitation scope, vendors should treat this code as a false positive and verify code alignment with issuing bodies before pursuing any opportunities tagged under 85771135.