[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6403-6404]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-2769]


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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: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., March 9-10, 2010.
    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 2010 calendar year cycle on Tuesday 
and Wednesday March 9-10, 2010. 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:

March 9, 2010:
    ICD-10 updates: GEMs; Freeze update; ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS updates
    Application of Collagen Based Tissue Sealant Patches
    Biopsy of Soft Tissue Mass
    Central Venous Catheter Placement Using Intra-Atrial 
Electrocardiographic Guidance
    Circulating Tumor Cell Enumeration, Magnetic
    Closed Chest Intra-cardiac Mitral Valve Repair
    Continuous Glucose Monitoring
    Fat Graft to Breast
    Insertion of Intracranial Neurostimulator Lead(s)
    Internal Fixation of Sternum
    Intralaminar Lumbar Decompression and Laminotomy with Epidurography
    Intra-operative Fluorescence Vascular Angiography (IFVA)
    Laparoscopic Hernia Repair without Mesh
    Thoracoscopic Cardiac Ablation
    Addenda (procedures)
March 10, 2010:
    Acquired absence of joint
    Brain death
    Eaton-Lambert Syndrome
    E. coli infection
    Fluency disorders (stuttering)
    Glaucoma staging
    H1N1 (Swine flu)
    Transfusion transmitted infections
    Uranium exposure
    Addenda (diagnoses)

    Contact Person for Additional Information: Amy Blum, Medical 
Systems Specialist, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards 
Staff, NCHS, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 2402, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, 
e-mail <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#88e9e4eab0c8ebeceba6efe7fe"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="86e7eae4bec6e5e2e5a8e1e9f0">[email protected]</span></a>, telephone 301-458-4106 (diagnosis), Mady Hue, 
Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Acute Care, CMS, 7500 Security 
Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland 21244, e-mail <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6904081b00051c47011c0c290a041a4701011a470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="573a36253e3b22793f223217343a24793f3f2479303821">[email protected]</span></a>, 
telephone 410-786-4510 (procedures). Note: CMS and NCHS will no longer 
be providing paper copies of handouts for the meeting. Electronic 
copies of all meeting materials will be posted on the CMS and NCHS Web 
sites prior to the meeting at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/03_meetings.asp#TopOfPage and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm.
    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 9-10, 2010 
meeting must submit their name and organization by March 5, 2010 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 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.


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    Dated: February 1, 2010.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-2769 Filed 2-8-10; 8:45 am]
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