UNSPSC 85482629: Release brachial plexus, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release brachial plexus, 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 01N30ZZ

UNSPSC 85482629 Release brachial plexus, open approach is a Commodity code whose nominal scope—a specific surgical procedure on the brachial plexus nerve—does not align with the state and local procurement activity recently posted under this tag. The recent opportunities show no medical procedures matching brachial plexus release or any surgical intervention at that clinical level of specificity. Instead, the tagged opportunities span occupational health surveillance, disability medical evaluations, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, surgical benefit carve-outs for centers of excellence, emergency medical services for detained youth, and independent medical evaluation for pension-disability determinations. The mismatch suggests this UNSPSC code is being used inconsistently by issuing bodies, or the code classification in the source data does not reflect the actual services being procured.

The issuing bodies across these opportunities are geographically distributed: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona), the City of Long Beach (California), the Washington State Department of Transportation (Washington), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (California). The recent opportunities are concentrated among county health systems and municipal retirement or health benefit programs rather than specialized surgical procedure procurement. No pattern of repeat buying under this code emerges from the source material. Because the code's nominal scope does not match the work actually posted under it, this code shows little relevant activity for vendors pursuing medical procedure contracts or surgical specialization at the procedure level.