UNSPSC 85473101: Destruction of cervical spinal cord, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of cervical spinal cord, 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 005W0ZZ

UNSPSC 85473101 Destruction of cervical spinal cord, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope — a highly specific surgical procedure — does not align with the state and local opportunities tagged under it in the recent record. The opportunities instead reflect occupational medical examinations, disability benefit evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, youth detention medical services, and surgical procedure carve-out programs — none of which involve cervical spinal cord destruction or neurosurgical intervention. The mismatch between the code's clinical descriptor and the actual work solicited suggests either systematic miscoding at the source or application of the code as a catch-all for medical and healthcare purchasing that falls outside narrower, procedure-specific categories.

Recent opportunities span Arizona, Washington State, California, Texas, and Florida, with issuing bodies including city retirement offices, state departments of transportation, county health systems, juvenile probation departments, and county commissioners' offices. Representative recent solicitations include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (due October 16, 2026) covering disability medical record review and examinations for public safety pension applicants; the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance services across 14 ferry system locations (due October 9, 2026); and the County of Santa Clara Health System's non-exclusive vendor qualification pool for temporary health professional staffing in 13 ancillary clinical categories (due October 7, 2026). The code generates no apparent follow-on opportunity pipeline or repeat buyer concentration — the activity is episodic and geographically dispersed without a dominant jurisdiction.