UNSPSC 85652303: Transfer tongue, palate, pharynx muscle with subcutaneous tissue, open approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to transfer tongue, palate, pharynx muscle with subcutaneous tissue, 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 0KX40Z1

UNSPSC 85652303 Transfer tongue, palate, pharynx muscle with subcutaneous tissue, open approach is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specific surgical procedure, but recent state and local opportunities show minimal alignment with this surgical code's literal scope. The recent-opportunities block contains six solicitations, of which five are administrative or management services unrelated to the coded procedure: independent medical evaluation and records management for disability pension determinations, pharmacy benefit management, occupational health surveillance, surgical carve-out benefit program administration, and temporary ancillary health professional staffing. Only one opportunity—the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department's RFI for specialty and emergency medical services for detained youth—touches clinical care delivery, but lacks specificity about surgical procedures and contains no evidence that transfer-of-tongue or palate-pharynx procedures are contemplated. The code appears to have been applied as a catch-all for health services procurement without regard to the anatomically specific procedure its name describes.

Given the mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited, the code shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. Opportunities are distributed across Arizona (City of Phoenix), California (City of Long Beach and County of Santa Clara), Washington (Washington State Department of Transportation), Florida (Collier County), and Texas (Harris County), with no pattern suggesting active sourcing for the coded surgical service. State and local procurement bodies issuing under this code—city retirement offices, county commissioners, health systems, and state transportation departments—are pursuing health administration and staffing services, not transfer-of-tongue surgical procedures. Business development professionals should verify the correct UNSPSC classification for their service offerings before pursuing activity tagged to this code.