[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 130 (Thursday, July 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 39265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16610]


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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., September 15-16, 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 second meeting of the 2010 calendar year cycle on 
Wednesday and Thursday September 15-16, 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

    Section 10109(c) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
and the Reconciliation Act of 2010 (PPACA) requires the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) to task the C&M Committee to convene a 
meeting before January 1, 2011, to receive stakeholder input regarding 
the crosswalk between the Ninth and Tenth Revisions of the 
International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9, and ICD-10, 
respectively), posted to the CMS Web site at http://www.cms.gov/ICD10, 
for the purpose of making appropriate revisions to said crosswalk. 
Section 10109(c) further states that any revised crosswalk be treated 
as a code set for which a standard has been adopted by the Secretary, 
and that revisions to this crosswalk be posted to the CMS Web site.
    The C&M Committee will use the first half of the first day of the 
September C&M Committee meeting, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, 
September 15, 2010, to fulfill the above-referenced PPACA requirements 
for this meeting to be held prior to January 1, 2011, and receive 
public input regarding the above-referenced crosswalk revision. No 
other meeting will be convened by the C&M Committee for this purpose. 
Interested parties and stakeholders should be prepared to submit their 
written comments and other relevant documentation at the meeting, or no 
later than November 12, 2010 to the following addresses:

Pat Brooks, RHIA, Senior Technical Advisor, Centers for Medicare & 
Medical Services, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group, Mail Stop C4-
08-06, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850. 
[email protected].
Donna Pickett, RHIA, MPH, Medical Systems Administrator, National 
Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards, 3311 
Toledo Road, Room 2337, Hyattsville, MD 20782. [email protected].

    Additional Information: Additional information regarding the 
tentative diagnosis and procedures topics will be published in a 
separate notice one month prior to the meeting.
    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 September 15-16, 2010 
meeting must submit their name and organization by September 10, 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, due to fire code 
requirements seating may be limited.
    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: June 30, 2010.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
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