UNSPSC 85471974: Revision of synthetic substitute in cerebral ventricle, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of synthetic substitute in cerebral ventricle, percutaneous 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 00W63JZ

UNSPSC 85471974 Revision of synthetic substitute in cerebral ventricle, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The source provided lists six recent opportunities across Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, but none involve cerebral ventricle procedures or neurosurgical implants. Instead, the opportunities are tagged with this code but actually solicit independent medical evaluation services, pharmacy benefit management, occupational health surveillance, surgical network carve-outs, youth detention healthcare, and temporary clinical staffing—none of which align with the neurological surgical intervention the code nominally describes. This mismatch suggests either systemic miscoding by state and local procurement offices or that the code has been applied to administrative or support services tangential to actual neurosurgical procurement.

The absence of genuine procurement activity under this code—no RFPs or IFBs for neurosurgical devices, implants, surgical revision services, or related vendor offerings from state health systems, departments of health, or hospital networks—indicates that state and local governments are either not buying these services through formal competitive solicitation, procuring them under different UNSPSC codes, or purchasing them through existing group purchasing contracts. Business development activity under this code should focus on clarifying with procurement offices whether cerebral ventricle procedures and related implants are actually being sourced through this taxonomy or whether opportunities are being mislabeled. Without evidence of genuine procurement volume or frequency under the code, pursuit is not recommended at this time.