UNSPSC 85801238: Change splint on right lower leg

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a placement intervention or procedure to change splint on right lower leg. This placement 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 2W0QX1Z

UNSPSC 85801238 Change splint on right lower leg is a Commodity code that nominally names a single clinical intervention, yet recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code involve staffing, laboratory, and occupational health services bearing no direct connection to orthopedic splinting. The mismatch between the code's narrow clinical scope and the actual work being solicited—primarily nursing staffing for medically complex students, laboratory testing, occupational medical examinations, and drug screening—suggests the code is either misapplied to these solicitations or used as a catch-all for health service delivery that does not fit cleanly within the UNSPSC taxonomy. State and local issuing bodies applying this code include school districts (Hillsborough County Public Schools), health plans (Inland Empire Health Plan), county corrections departments (Escambia County), county health systems (Santa Clara, Nevada, Kentucky), state health and human services agencies (Texas HHSC, Illinois DHS, Michigan DHHS), and transit authorities (Dallas Area Rapid Transit). Geographic activity spans Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia, with no clear concentration in any single state or region.

Representative recent opportunities include Hillsborough County Public Schools' November 2025 Notice of Intent to award nursing staffing services for medically fragile students through AB Staffing Solutions (sole-source procurement, no competitive RFP), Escambia County Corrections Department's RFP for onsite dialysis services with proposals due November 3, 2026, Inland Empire Health Plan's October 2026 RFI for 24/7 virtual urgent care services via telehealth, and multiple state procurements for clinical laboratory services, occupational health physicals, drug and alcohol testing, and lead sample analysis. The code shows no relevant recent activity tied to orthopedic splinting or the clinical procedure the code nominally describes; the opportunities are substantively unrelated to the code's stated definition. Activity levels are moderate across the mixed issuing-body universe, but the fundamental disconnect between code definition and procurement practice suggests this code may be unreliable for business development targeting actual splinting services or related orthopedic supply and support work.