UNSPSC 85473568: Transfer facial nerve to trigeminal nerve, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer facial nerve to trigeminal 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 00XM0ZK

UNSPSC 85473568 Transfer facial nerve to trigeminal nerve, open approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, yet the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show no alignment with that clinical scope. Instead, the code appears to be capturing a broad range of occupational health, disability medical evaluation, and healthcare benefits administration services that bear no procedural relationship to facial nerve transfer surgery. The issuing bodies represent diverse local jurisdictions — a city retirement system (Phoenix), a city health benefits administrator (Long Beach), a state transportation department (Washington), a county juvenile justice authority (Harris County), a county human resources division (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara) — suggesting the code is being used as a catch-all classification for health services procurement rather than as a category specific to surgical procedures. The services actually being solicited include independent medical disability evaluations for pension applicants, surgical benefit carve-out networks for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for state ferry workers, emergency and specialty medical care for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management administration, and temporary staffing for clinical ancillary positions.

Recent activity spans Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida. Representative opportunities include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's RFP for independent medical evaluation services (approximately 75 disability benefit applications annually, $750,000 five-year contract maximum, proposals due October 16, 2026), the Washington State Department of Transportation's RFP for occupational medical surveillance across 14 ferry terminal and vessel locations (proposals due October 9, 2026, cost-based scoring with 40 percent weight on pricing), the City of Long Beach's RFP for surgical and medical procedure carve-out benefits through Centers of Excellence for approximately 3,800 enrolled employees and retirees (proposals due October 7, 2026, contract target go-live April 1, 2027), and the County of Santa Clara Health System's non-exclusive multiple-award qualification solicitation for temporary health professional staffing across 13 ancillary clinical categories (proposals due October 7, 2026, five-year Qualified List with no guaranteed work). The mismatch between the code's nominal surgical scope and the health administration work actually being tagged suggests either taxonomy misclassification or use of the code as a placeholder for health services that lack a more precise category.