UNSPSC 85562864: Extirpation of matter from nasal septum, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to extirpation of matter from nasal septum, 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 09CM3ZZ

UNSPSC 85562864 Extirpation of matter from nasal septum, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no meaningful recent activity in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged to this code—independent medical evaluation services for disability pension determinations, surgical benefit carve-out management for employee health plans, occupational medical surveillance for ferry workers, emergency and specialty healthcare for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—do not involve nasal septum procedures and represent a fundamental mismatch between the code's clinical scope and what is actually being solicited. State and local procurement offices appear to have applied this code inconsistently or incorrectly to broader healthcare service categories that do not map to the specific surgical procedure the code nominally describes.

No active solicitation in the dataset targets nasal septum surgery or related otolaryngologic procedures. The geographic spread of the mistagged opportunities spans Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, and includes state departments (Washington State Department of Transportation), county health systems (Santa Clara), county human resources and procurement offices (Collier County, Harris County), and city departments (Phoenix, Long Beach). Without recent opportunities that actually align with the code's definition, there is no reliable basis for characterizing issuing-body patterns, geographic concentration, or work volume under UNSPSC 85562864. Practitioners pursuing this code should verify tag accuracy with issuing bodies before responding to any RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB.