UNSPSC 85482936: Transfer phrenic nerve to phrenic nerve, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer phrenic nerve to phrenic 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 01X20Z2

UNSPSC 85482936 Transfer phrenic nerve to phrenic nerve, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure — phrenic nerve transfer — that falls outside the scope of what state and local governments typically solicit through RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB processes. The five recent opportunities tagged to this code span inmate medical and pharmacy services, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary and urgent care, peer support for behavioral health workers, and fire department medical direction — none of which involve phrenic nerve surgery or surgical procedures of the type the code describes. The mismatch suggests either a cataloging error in the jurisdiction's UNSPSC assignment or a misalignment between the code's clinical scope and how state and local procurement systems classify health services contracts.

The recent opportunities tagged to this code reflect state and local demand for managed health services contracts covering employee and dependent populations, county inmates, and specialized behavioral health support — services typically structured as RFPs with annual values ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars. Issuing bodies include county human resources divisions and boards of commissioners (Collier County, Monroe County, Florida), consolidated city government purchasing offices (Columbus, Georgia), county behavioral health departments (San Mateo County), and municipal fire departments (Santa Monica). Geographic activity concentrates in Florida and California, with isolated activity in Georgia. Given the code's mismatch with the solicitations it has captured, business development professionals should treat this code as dormant for surgical services procurement and verify whether their target market actually uses this UNSPSC designation for the work they pursue.