UNSPSC 85472551: Transfer vagus nerve to facial nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer vagus nerve to facial nerve, percutaneous endoscopic 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 00XQ4ZM

UNSPSC 85472551 Transfer vagus nerve to facial nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominates a highly specific surgical procedure—nerve transfer via percutaneous endoscopic method—yet the recent opportunities posted under this code in state and local systems span occupational medical surveillance, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing pools, surgical benefit carve-outs for employee health plans, and emergency medical services for youth in custody. None of these solicitations involve vagus-to-facial nerve transfer surgery or related surgical procedures. The code appears to have been assigned incorrectly to opportunities that fall under broader healthcare administration, occupational health, and employee benefit management rather than surgical intervention.

The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and actual recent procurement activity suggests either systematic miscoding by the issuing jurisdictions or use of the code as a catch-all placeholder for healthcare-related services. The opportunities themselves—spanning the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (medical record summarization for disability benefit determinations), the City of Long Beach (surgical benefit network management), Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth), Collier County (pharmacy benefit management), and Santa Clara County Health System (temporary health professional staffing)—represent legitimate state and local health service procurement activity, but they do not correspond to the specific surgical procedure this code identifies. Vendors pursuing state and local work in this commodity should verify code assignment with issuing bodies before investing proposal effort, as the code's current tagging appears unreliable for identifying genuinely relevant opportunities.