UNSPSC 85482103: Destruction of lumbar nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of lumbar 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 015B4ZZ

UNSPSC 85482103 Destruction of lumbar nerve, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect the work state and local governments are actually soliciting under this code designation. The recent opportunities tagged to this code cover occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical procedure carve-out networks, and emergency medical services for detained youth—none of which involves the specific clinical procedure named in the code. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual purchasing activity suggests either systematic miscoding in state and local procurement systems or a data-classification issue that obscures the true nature of work being bought.

The opportunities that have been tagged to this code span diverse issuing bodies including city retirement offices (City of Phoenix), county health systems (Santa Clara County, Harris County), municipal employee-benefit programs (City of Long Beach), state transportation agencies (Washington State Department of Transportation), and county procurement offices (Collier County). Geographic activity is scattered across Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington. Representative recent solicitations include the City of Phoenix Retirement Office's independent medical evaluation services RFP (due October 16, 2026, for disability determinations under Arizona's Public Safety Personnel Retirement System), the Washington State Department of Transportation's occupational medical surveillance RFP for ferry workers across 14 locations (due October 9, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara's multiple-award health professional staffing qualification pool (due October 7, 2026). Given the code's narrow clinical specificity and the absence of any recent procurements actually seeking lumbar nerve destruction procedures, vendors in minimally invasive spinal surgery should treat this code as inactive for state and local opportunity tracking and verify code assignment in any future RFPs that may appear under this designation.