UNSPSC 85782611: Supplement right knee region with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement right knee region with synthetic substitute, 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 0YUF4JZ

UNSPSC 85782611, Supplement right knee region with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach, is a Commodity code that does not reflect the state and local procurement activity posted under it. The recent opportunities tagged to this code involve occupational medical surveillance, pension disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-outs for municipal employees, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty medical services for youth in custody—none of which describe orthopedic knee-replacement procedures or the procedural surgical codes the UNSPSC category name suggests. State and local governments do not appear to procure individual surgical procedures or implants under this code through open solicitation; instead, issuing bodies source these services through health plan vendors, managed-care contracts, and hospital networks negotiated at a higher level.

The mismatch between the UNSPSC code designation and actual procurement activity suggests this code carries little decision-relevant content for vendors pursuing state and local medical-device or orthopedic-procedure contracts. The recent opportunities span counties (Santa Clara, Collier, Harris), municipalities (Phoenix, Long Beach), state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), and health systems, but their focus on staffing pools, benefit administration, and medical surveillance services falls outside the orthopedic implant and surgical-procedure scope implied by the code name. Business development professionals should verify whether this code is correctly tagged in state and local procurement systems or whether orthopedic-device and knee-replacement procurement routes instead through health-plan RFPs, equipment-supply codes, or hospital capital-equipment solicitations in other UNSPSC families.