UNSPSC 85581402: Revision of synthetic substitute in mouth and throat, external approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to revision of synthetic substitute in mouth and throat, external 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 0CWYXJZ

UNSPSC 85581402 Revision of synthetic substitute in mouth and throat, external approach is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under this designation do not reflect procurement of oral or throat prosthetics or their revision. Instead, the tagged opportunities span occupational health surveillance, pension disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit management, pharmacy benefit administration, temporary health professional staffing, and specialty medical services for detained youth — none of which align with the code's stated scope of dental or pharyngeal synthetic prosthetic replacement or repair. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding at the issuing jurisdictions or that the code is being used as a catchall for broader medical services procurement outside its intended commodity definition.

The geographic spread of tagged opportunities includes Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (state-level), Texas (Harris County), and Florida (Collier County), reflecting activity across multiple regions and issuing-body types including city retirement offices, county health systems, state departments of transportation, and county procurement divisions. However, because none of these solicitations purchase products or services within the code's nominal scope of oral and throat prosthetic revision, this code shows little decision-relevant recent activity for vendors pursuing work in synthetic substitute revision.