UNSPSC 85801919: Removal of pressure dressing on right upper extremity

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a placement intervention or procedure to removal of pressure dressing on right upper extremity. 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 2W58X6Z

UNSPSC 85801919 Removal of pressure dressing on right upper extremity is a Commodity code with minimal decision-relevant recent activity. The code's nominal scope describes a narrow clinical procedure—removal of pressure dressing on a specific body part—yet the recent-opportunities block contains no solicitations that align with this clinical task. Instead, the block records state and local procurement for clinical laboratory services, occupational health and medical surveillance, drug testing, laboratory testing across multiple modalities, postmortem testing, histology services, inmate medical services, employee clinic operations, and pharmacy benefit management. None of these solicitations involve pressure dressing removal or match the procedure-level specificity the code describes. The mismatch suggests either that state and local procurement offices are tagging laboratory, occupational health, and medical service opportunities with an incorrectly applied code, or that the code itself sees no meaningful recent state and local contracting activity tied to its actual scope.

State and local issuers—primarily state health and human services agencies, departments of veterans affairs, county and city health and medical examiner offices, school districts, and transit authorities—dominate the recent block. Texas agencies, Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, Illinois Department of Public Health, Michigan MDHHS, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon State Police, and county governments in Florida, Georgia, and elsewhere drive the volume. Geographic spread spans Texas, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Florida, and Georgia with activity nationwide. Representative opportunities include the Illinois Department of Human Services' July 2026 IFB for clinical laboratory services across 14 mental health facilities (response due Aug 4, 2026); Texas HHSC's lead sample analysis RFP for EPA-accredited laboratories supporting the Blood Lead Surveillance Branch (response due Jul 31, 2026); the Harris Center for Mental Health's June 2026 RFP for agency-wide clinical laboratory services in Houston (response due Jun 17, 2026); and the State of Nevada's June 2026 RFP for statewide clinical lab testing across 21 rural clinics with 5% Nevada-business preference (response due Jul 13, 2026). The consistent thread across all recent opportunities is laboratory testing, occupational health screening, or medical surveillance services—not pressure dressing removal. The code should be monitored for future activity, but current procurement flow under this commodity number does not reflect its stated scope.