UNSPSC 85581104: Supplement upper gingiva with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement upper gingiva with nonautologous tissue substitute, 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 0CU50KZ

UNSPSC 85581104 (Supplement upper gingiva with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach), a Commodity code, shows no relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The five most recent opportunities posted under or near this code — inmate medical and pharmacy services for a Georgia county prison, pharmacy benefit management for a Florida county, virtual primary and urgent care for a Florida county, peer support services for behavioral health workers in California, and medical direction for a California fire department — bear no meaningful connection to the periodontal surgical procedure the code nominally describes. State and local governments do solicit healthcare services broadly, but this particular Commodity code does not map to any of the active solicitation activity in the current data, and no procurement professional should rely on this code to identify relevant buying signals in the healthcare-services space.

This code appears to reflect a clinical procedural classification that state and local procurement offices do not use to tag or organize contract opportunities. The mismatch between the code's clinical specificity and the absence of matching solicitations suggests either that periodontal procedures are not procured as standalone line items by state and local bodies, or that jurisdictions use different codes or descriptive language to solicit these services. Business development professionals monitoring this code should expect minimal visibility into state and local demand and consider broader healthcare-services codes or direct outreach to county health departments and correctional health systems if periodontal services are part of their product or service mix.