UNSPSC 85561258: Destruction of left external auditory canal, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to destruction of left external auditory canal, via natural or artificial opening. 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 09547ZZ

UNSPSC 85561258 Destruction of left external auditory canal, via natural or artificial opening is a Commodity code with no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The six recent opportunities tagged under this code—independent medical evaluation services for pension disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical benefits carve-out programs (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical care for youth in custody (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (Santa Clara County Health System)—address occupational health screening, benefits administration, emergency acute care, and clinical staffing, none of which align with the specific medical procedure (destruction of external auditory canal tissue) that the code nominally describes. The code appears to be a miscoding artifact in state and local procurement systems rather than an active procurement category.

No pursuit strategy is warranted under this code. Vendors should flag the classification mismatch with procurement offices when encountering it in RFP searches, as the tagging suggests either data-entry error or a categorical misalignment that obscures the actual work being bought.