[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 222 (Friday, November 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 58565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29290]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting

    The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the following meeting.

    Name: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M).
    Times and Dates: 10 a.m.-Open, December 5, 1996; 8:30 a.m.-3:30 
p.m., December 6, 1996.
    Place: Auditorium, Health Care Financing Administration 
Building, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee 
will be holding its final meeting of the year. This meeting is a 
public forum for the presentation of proposed modifications to the 
International Classification of Diseases, ninth-revision, clinical 
modification. Topics to be discussed include Crohn's disease, 
obstetric chapter modifications, febrile convulsions, external cause 
modifications, hepatitis carrier, high-risk screening mammogram, 
update on ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, partial ventribulectomy, 
thalamic stimulation for tremors, arthroplasty with cement spacers, 
and addenda.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Notice: In the interest of security, the Department of Health 
and Human Services has instituted stringent procedures for entrance 
into the building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without 
a government identification card will need to show photo 
identification and sign-in.
    Contact Persons for More Information: Substantive program 
information may be obtained from Amy Gruber, Health Care Financing 
Administration, 7500 Security Boulevard, Room C5-06-27, Baltimore, 
Maryland 21244, telephone 410/786-1542, or Donna Pickett, Co-chair, 
ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee, NCHS, CDC, Room 
1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, 
Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050, extension 142.

    Dated: November 7, 1996.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-29290 Filed 11-14-96; 8:45 am]
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