UNSPSC 85682918: Replacement of right occipital bone with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to replacement of right occipital bone with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous 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 0NR737Z

UNSPSC 85682918 Replacement of right occipital bone with autologous tissue substitute, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The source records six recent opportunities tagged under this code, and none involve orthopedic bone replacement procedures, autologous tissue substitution, or percutaneous surgical approaches. Instead, the opportunities span occupational medical surveillance, disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit carve-outs for government employee health plans, pharmacy benefit management, temporary health professional staffing, specialty medical services in youth detention, and emergency medical services contracting — all of which fall outside the code's nominal scope of a specific surgical procedure using autologous bone grafting. The mislabeling suggests that state and local procurement offices are tagging opportunities with taxonomy codes that do not reflect the actual goods or services being solicited, rendering this code unreliable as a signal of surgical-procedure procurement at the state and local level.

No state and local government purchasing activity for replacement occipital bone procedures with autologous tissue substitutes, percutaneous approach is evident in the source material. Practitioners should verify the accuracy of code assignments in individual opportunity records and treat this code as presently inactive for substantive business development purposes under state and local solicitation activity.