UNSPSC 85811401: Introduction of adhesion barrier into pleural cavity, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a administrative intervention or procedure to introduction of adhesion barrier into pleural cavity, open approach. This administrative 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 3E0L05Z

UNSPSC 85811401, Introduction of adhesion barrier into pleural cavity, open approach, is a Commodity-tier code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific surgical procedure involving pleural cavity intervention, yet recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code bear no substantive relationship to the procedure itself—instead spanning virtual urgent care services, general medical services, nursing home operations, cancer registry work, retinal screening devices, EMS staffing, occupational health and wellness, behavioral health services, recovery audit contracting, and opioid treatment programming. This mismatch signals either systematic miscoding by issuing bodies or an administrative artifact with limited operational relevance to actual procurement. The code shows no recent solicitations for the surgical procedure or related medical devices and supplies that the UNSPSC taxonomy would suggest.

The recent opportunities tagged under this code originate from diverse issuing bodies—a California health plan (Inland Empire Health Plan), Georgia county government (DeKalb County), Nevada state health authority, California county public health and medical center systems (San Mateo), Colorado and Texas state health departments, Florida county and city health agencies, Arizona city retirement systems, and Kansas and other jurisdictions' behavioral health and opioid settlement-funded programs—and span RFI, RFP, RFQ, and IFB notice types. Geographic spread encompasses California, Georgia, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, reflecting national distribution but without concentration in any single state or region. Because the code as applied shows no recent opportunities genuinely aligned with the procedure it nominally describes, and because the opportunities actually posted under it span unrelated healthcare service categories, this code represents a low-confidence signal for business development targeting pleural cavity adhesion barrier supply or surgical services.