UNSPSC 85652536: Resection of tongue, palate, pharynx muscle, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to resection of tongue, palate, pharynx muscle, percutaneous endoscopic 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 0KT44ZZ

UNSPSC 85652536 Resection of tongue, palate, pharynx muscle, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that shows no alignment with actual state and local procurement activity in the recent record. The code nominally describes a surgical procedure, but the six most recent opportunities tagged under it span independent medical evaluation services, surgical benefit carve-out administration, occupational health surveillance, youth detention healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—none of which involve resection of tongue, palate, or pharynx muscle. This suggests either systematic miscoding of health-benefit and occupational-medicine procurement or upstream classification error. The code does not reflect genuine state and local buying patterns for the surgical procedure it names.

State and local issuers working on these records include city human resources and retirement offices (Phoenix, Long Beach), a state transportation agency (Washington State Department of Transportation), a county juvenile probation department (Harris County), a county health care consortium (Collier County), and a county health system (Santa Clara County). The work actually being solicited is administrative medical services—record review, benefit program management, occupational surveillance, and temporary clinical staffing—which fall outside the scope of the UNSPSC code as defined. No pattern of repeat buyers, geographic concentration, or relevant recent opportunities supports pursuit of this code for surgical-procedure-related contracting in state and local government.