UNSPSC 85481108: Release head and neck sympathetic nerve, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release head and neck sympathetic nerve, 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 01NK3ZZ

UNSPSC 85481108 Release head and neck sympathetic nerve, percutaneous approach (Commodity) shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure, but the six most recent opportunities tagged to this code across the United States involve independent medical evaluation administration, surgical benefit carve-out management, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which constitute the procedure the code describes. State and local procurement offices appear to have misclassified these opportunities, applying a procedure code to broader healthcare administration and staffing solicitations.

The geographic spread of these misclassified opportunities spans Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Texas (Harris County), and Florida (Collier County), with issuing bodies including city retirement offices, county health systems, state transportation agencies, county juvenile justice authorities, and county human resources divisions. The recent posted dates (July through October 2026) and diverse issuing-body mix suggest no pattern of actual procurement under this Commodity code itself. Practitioners should verify UNSPSC coding directly with issuing bodies before pursuing opportunities tagged to this code, as the tag-to-scope mismatch indicates either systematic miscoding or test data rather than genuine market activity under 85481108.