UNSPSC 85581107: Supplement buccal mucosa with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to supplement buccal mucosa 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 0CU40KZ

UNSPSC 85581107 Supplement buccal mucosa with nonautologous tissue substitute, open approach is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope — a surgical procedure involving tissue grafting — does not align with the state and local contract opportunities posted under this classification during the past three months. The most recent records tagged to this code include independent medical evaluation services for public safety retirement disability determinations (City of Phoenix), surgical benefit management programs for municipal employees (City of Long Beach), occupational medical surveillance (Washington State Department of Transportation), emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth (Harris County), pharmacy benefit management (Collier County), and temporary health professional staffing (County of Santa Clara). None of these solicitations involve buccal mucosa supplementation, tissue substitutes, or operative surgical procedures of the type the code nominally describes. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding by the issuing bodies or that the code is being used as a catchall classification for healthcare-related procurements without operational specificity.

Without recent opportunities that substantively match the code's procedural scope, geographic concentration and issuing-body patterns cannot be reliably determined from these records. The opportunities present show activity across Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, and involve city retirement offices, municipal health benefits programs, state transportation agencies, county juvenile probation, county commissioners, and health systems — a mix of issuing bodies typical of large healthcare and benefits procurements — but they do not reflect buying activity within the Commodity code's actual domain. Firms evaluating this code should verify with state and local procurement offices whether the classification is in active use for surgical or tissue-based medical procedures, or whether the misfiled records indicate that this code may not generate material procurement volume in the state and local market.