UNSPSC 85682220: Drainage of left palatine bone with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to drainage of left palatine bone with drainage device, 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 0N9L40Z

UNSPSC 85682220, "Drainage of left palatine bone with drainage device, percutaneous endoscopic approach," is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope describes a specific surgical procedure, but the recent opportunities tagged to it do not involve that procedure or related surgical interventions. Instead, the tagged solicitations address occupational medical surveillance, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, independent medical evaluations for pension disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-outs for employee health plans, and emergency medical services for youth in custody — none of which align with the code's stated clinical scope. The mismatch suggests either miscoding in the source data or use of this code as a catch-all placeholder for health services procurement without clinical specificity.

The recent opportunities do reveal that state and local bodies are actively soliciting health services across multiple issuing bodies: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (pension disability evaluations), the City of Long Beach (employee surgical benefits), the Washington State Department of Transportation (occupational medical surveillance), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (emergency and specialty medical services), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (pharmacy benefit management), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (temporary health professional staffing). Activity spans Arizona, California, Washington, and Texas, reflecting national geographic dispersion. However, because these opportunities are not substantively related to the code's stated surgical procedure, the code itself does not present a meaningful business development signal for firms pursuing state and local procurement in this category.