UNSPSC 85483022: Release cervical plexus, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to release cervical plexus, percutaneous 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 01N03ZZ

UNSPSC 85483022 Release cervical plexus, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local procurement opportunities posted under it. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure — a percutaneous nerve-block intervention — yet the four most recent solicitations tagged to this code involve institutional healthcare administration, pharmacy benefit management, virtual primary care services, peer support programs, and fire department medical direction. None of these opportunities involve cervical plexus release procedures or percutaneous surgical interventions.

The mismatch suggests that this code either carries a classification error in the source data or state and local procurement systems have tagged broad healthcare service contracts to a narrowly defined surgical procedure code. The opportunities themselves span issuing bodies including county governments (Muscogee County, Georgia; Collier County and Monroe County, Florida; San Mateo County, California) and municipal fire departments (Santa Monica, California), with contract values ranging from $580,000 in total program funding (San Mateo peer support initiative) to estimated annual pharmacy spending of $8.7 million (Collier County). Without evidence that state and local agencies are actually purchasing cervical plexus release services under this code, the code shows no relevant recent activity for business development purposes.