[Federal Register: March 4, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 43)]
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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.-6 p.m., March 19, 2008. 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., 
March 20, 2008.
    Place: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Auditorium, 
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244.
    Status: Open to the public.
    Purpose: The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee 
will hold its first meeting of the 2008 calendar year cycle on 
Wednesday and Thursday, March 19-20, 2008. 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:

Antidepressant poisonings
Gastroschisis and omphalocele
History of t-PA
Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
Military-related external cause of injury codes and activity codes
Premature birth status
Venous complications in pregnancy and the puerperium
Venous thromboembolism
Addenda (diagnoses)
Bilateral ventricular assist devices
Collateral air flow assessment
Episiotomy and repair of spontaneous lacerations
Fenestrated endograft repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms
Laparoscopic robotic assisted surgery
Spinal fusion robotic assisted surgery
Total breast reconstruction
Addenda (procedures)

    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 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 driver's 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's list. Those wishing to attend the March 19-20, 2008 
meeting must submit their name and organization by March 12, 2008 for 
inclusion on the visitor's list. This visitor's list will be maintained 
at the front desk of the CMS building and be 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's 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.

    Dated: February 25, 2008.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
 [FR Doc. E8-4095 Filed 3-3-08; 8:45 am]

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