UNSPSC 85472831: Release cerebral meninges, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release cerebral meninges, 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 00N13ZZ

UNSPSC 85472831 Release cerebral meninges, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that bears no relationship to recent state and local procurement activity in the source material. The code's nominal medical procedure scope does not align with any of the opportunities posted, which solicit inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management services, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support for peer workers, and fire department medical director services. The source shows little relevant recent activity under this code.

State and local governments appear to tag healthcare and related services broadly across UNSPSC taxonomy without regard to procedure-specific codes. Procurement professionals pursuing this code should verify that issuing bodies are actually seeking the discrete clinical procedure named in the code—release of cerebral meninges via percutaneous approach—rather than assuming recent opportunities in behavioral health, correctional medicine, or EMS oversight belong here. The code's silence in actual state and local solicitations suggests either that the procedure is rarely contracted at the state and local level, or that when it is procured, it is tagged to different UNSPSC families related to healthcare facility services or medical supplies rather than to this specific commodity classification.