UNSPSC 85715012: Fusion of occipital-cervical joint, posterior approach, posterior column, percutaneous approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to fusion of occipital-cervical joint, posterior approach, posterior column, 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 0RG03Z1

UNSPSC 85715012 Fusion of occipital-cervical joint, posterior approach, posterior column, percutaneous approach is a Commodity code that shows no recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal surgical scope. The recent opportunities posted under this code—independent medical evaluations for pension-board disability determinations, surgical benefit carve-out administration, occupational medical surveillance, youth detention healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing—are administrative health-plan and occupational-medicine services rather than spine fusion procedures or implant procurement. State and local governments do not purchase orthopedic surgical procedures through competitive bid; the code appears to be a data-integrity mismatch in how issuing bodies have tagged their health-services solicitations.

No state or local procurement opportunities for occipital-cervical joint fusion—the actual service named by the code—appear in the recent record. Business development professionals should treat this code as inactive for state and local contracting purposes and verify whether their service or product aligns with the administrative health management and occupational medicine categories under which activity is actually posted.