UNSPSC 85481208: Release head and neck sympathetic nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release head and neck sympathetic 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 01NK4ZZ

UNSPSC 85481208 Release head and neck sympathetic nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach (Commodity) shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The five most recently posted opportunities under this code—inmate medical and pharmacy services for Muscogee County Prison, pharmacy benefit management services for Collier County, virtual primary and urgent care services for Monroe County, peer support services for San Mateo County, and fire department medical director services for Santa Monica—represent healthcare contracting activity (correctional medicine, pharmacy administration, telemedicine, behavioral health, and emergency medicine medical direction) that bears no relationship to surgical procedures for sympathetic nerve release. The code appears to be a mismatch between the UNSPSC taxonomy and the actual goods and services being procured.

State and local issuers are not actively using this code for the specific procedure its name describes. Firms evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for state and local procurement purposes and monitor alternative codes under broader healthcare services families if pursuing correctional medicine, managed care pharmacy, telemedicine, or EMS medical direction contracts.