UNSPSC 85582573: Drainage of uvula, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of uvula, 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 0C9N0ZZ

UNSPSC 85582573 Drainage of uvula, open approach (Commodity) shows a substantial mismatch between its nominal clinical scope and the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The five most recent opportunities posted under this code are not surgical drainage procedures but instead represent a mix of institutional healthcare administration and service delivery: inmate medical and pharmacy services for a county correctional facility, pharmacy benefit management for county employees, virtual primary and urgent care services, peer support services for mental health workers, and fire department medical director services. None of these solicitations involve surgical intervention or the specific procedure the code nominally describes. The issuing bodies span multiple jurisdictions and service contexts — a county consolidated government (Georgia), county boards of commissioners (Florida), a county behavioral health department (California), and a municipal fire department (California) — but they do not reflect a coherent procurement category aligned with the code's stated medical procedure.

Geographic activity appears concentrated in Florida and California, with one Georgia opportunity. The Muscogee County Prison medical services RFP (Columbus Consolidated Government, due May 15, 2026) solicits comprehensive inmate healthcare including pharmacy services and medical supplies; the Collier County Pharmacy Benefit Management RFP (due April 9, 2026, historical annual spend approximately $8.7 million) covers claims processing and formulary management for roughly 2,400 employees and 4,800 covered members; and the Monroe County virtual primary and urgent care RFP (due April 16, 2026) targets approximately 2,300 county members through a flat per-employee-per-month rate. These opportunities reflect healthcare administration and managed services procurement, not procedural surgery. The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its stated commodity definition, indicating either systematic miscoding in the source data or that surgical drainage procedures are not currently being procured by state and local agencies under this taxonomy entry.