UNSPSC 85472253: Transfer vagus nerve to glossopharyngeal nerve, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer vagus nerve to glossopharyngeal nerve, open 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 00XQ0ZP

UNSPSC 85472253 Transfer vagus nerve to glossopharyngeal nerve, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The code nominally describes a specific neurosurgical procedure, yet the recent opportunities tagged to this code center on occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, and surgical benefit carve-outs for government employee health plans — none of which involve vagus-to-glossopharyngeal nerve transfer. The mismatch suggests either miscoding in the state and local procurement system or a data artifact; the code does not appear to describe work that state and local issuing bodies are actually soliciting at present.

The opportunities present in the data span different issuing bodies and geographies but are unrelated to the code's surgical scope. The City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona) solicited independent medical evaluation services for disability determinations; the Washington State Department of Transportation requested occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry system locations; the City of Long Beach (California) sought surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefit management; and the County of Santa Clara Health System (California) established a qualified vendor pool for temporary ancillary health professional staffing. None of these procurements involve the nerve-transfer procedure the code nominally describes. State and local agencies do procure health services widely, but this particular commodity code does not track those activities in a meaningful way based on recent posting evidence.