UNSPSC 85482649: Transfer median nerve to radial nerve, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer median nerve to radial 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 01X50Z6

UNSPSC 85482649 Transfer median nerve to radial nerve, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The source records five recent state and local opportunities tagged to this code, but none involves surgical nerve transfer procedures. Instead, the opportunities cover inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county correctional facility, pharmacy benefit management for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support services for mental health workers, and fire department medical director services. None of these solicitations contemplate the orthopedic or hand surgery procedure described by the code's nominal scope.

The mismatch between the code's description and the work actually being solicited suggests either a systematic tagging error in the source or a misalignment between UNSPSC taxonomy and actual state and local procurement nomenclature for medical services. The issuing bodies represented—Columbus Consolidated Government (Georgia), Collier County (Florida), Monroe County (Florida), San Mateo County (California), and Santa Monica Fire Department (California)—are pursuing broader health care administration, managed care, and medical direction contracts rather than surgical procedures. Without additional opportunities genuinely soliciting nerve transfer or orthopedic surgical services under this code, no reliable characterization of issuing-body concentration, geographic spread, or market activity is possible. State and local procurement professionals evaluating this code should verify whether medical services and surgical procedures are consistently coded to UNSPSC 854000-level classifications or whether they cluster elsewhere in the taxonomy.