UNSPSC 85582000: Oropharyngeal bony palate/cartilaginous structures mouth, percutaneous approach

This class includes one or more of 23 standard surgical interventions or procedures on component parts of the structures of the oropharyngeal bony palate and cartilaginous structures of the mouth with percutaneous approach. These surgical interventions or procedures are listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 PCS under code 0C.

UNSPSC 85582000 Oropharyngeal bony palate/cartilaginous structures mouth, percutaneous approach (Class) does not align with recent state and local procurement activity under this code. The six recent opportunities posted between July and September 2026 focus on occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, specialty surgical procedure networks, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, and emergency medical services for youth in custody—none of which involve oropharyngeal surgical procedures or the specific anatomical intervention the code nominally describes. The opportunities instead reflect broad healthcare administration, staffing, and benefits management across state departments, counties, and municipal health systems.

The code shows little relevant recent activity. State and local procurement offices appear to be tagging healthcare-related opportunities with this medical procedure code despite the substantive mismatch between the code's narrow surgical scope and the actual work being solicited—which encompasses occupational health program administration, third-party pharmacy and medical management, temporary clinical staffing pools, and benefits carve-out coordination rather than oropharyngeal procedures themselves. Buyers in Washington, Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and other states are using this code to classify health-related contracts, but the taxonomy classification does not reflect the operational or clinical nature of what is actually being purchased.