[Federal Register: February 27, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 38)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Classifications and
Public Health Data Standards Staff, Announces the Following Meeting
Name: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.
Time and Date: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., March 11-12, 2009.
Place: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Auditorium,
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland.
Status: Open to the public.
Purpose: The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee
will hold its first meeting of the 2009 calendar year cycle on
Wednesday and Thursday March 11-12, 2009. The C&M meeting is a public
forum for the presentation of proposed modifications to the
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth-Revision, Clinical
Modification.
Matters to be Discussed: Tentative agenda items include: Body Mass
Index (BMI) 50 and over Cognitive symptoms related to Traumatic Brain
Injury (TBI) and other eurological conditions, E. coli expansion fecal
incontinence 5th digits for epilepsy codes, Heart failure, Mullerian
anomalies personal history of Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia (VIN)
and Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (VAIN)Addenda (diagnoses),
Injection of chemotherapeutic agent Intravascular optical coherence
tomography (OCT), Thoracoscopic procedures, Virtual histology
intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS), Addenda (procedures), and ICD-10/
MS-DRG update.
For Further Information Contact: Amy Blum, Medical Systems
Specialist, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards Staff,
NCHS, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 2402, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, e-mail
alb8@cdc.gov, telephone 301-458-4106 (diagnosis), Mady Hue, Health
Insurance Specialist, Division of Acute Care, CMS, 7500 Security Blvd.,
Baltimore, Maryland 21244, e-mail marilu.hue@cms.hhs.gov, telephone
410-786-4510 (procedures).
Notice: Because of increased security requirements CMS has
instituted stringent procedures for entrance into the building by non-
government employees. Persons without a government I.D. will need to
show an official form of picture I.D., (such as a drivers license), and
sign-in at the security desk upon entering the building.
Those who wish to attend a specific ICD-9-CM C&M meeting in the CMS
auditorium must submit their name and organization for addition to the
meeting visitor list. Those wishing to attend the March 11-12, 2009
meeting must submit their name and organization by March 5, 2009 for
inclusion on the visitor list. This visitor list will be maintained at
the front desk of the CMS building and used by the guards to admit
visitors to the meeting. Those who attended previous ICD-9-CM C&M
meetings will no longer be automatically added to the visitor list. You
must request inclusion of your name prior to each meeting you attend.
Register to attend the meeting on-line at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
apps/events/.
Notice: This is a public meeting. However, because of fire code
requirements, should the number of
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attendants meet the capacity of the room, the meeting will be closed.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities,
for both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: February 13, 2009.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. E9-4204 Filed 2-26-09; 8:45 am]
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