Meetings: CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee,

[Federal Register: April 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 77)]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Data Policy and Standards Staff, announces the following meeting.

Name: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.

Time and Date: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., May 13, 1999.

Place: The Health Care Financing Administration, 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 1999 cycle on Thursday, May 13, 1999. 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: Agenda items include: adverse effects of Viagra; allergy status; loss of height; foot ulcers; external cause codes for rollerblading/skateboarding; acquired absence of organ; infertility versus sterility; update on the ICD-10-PCS; insertion of implantable loop recorder; transurethral microwave therapy and Addenda.

Contact Person for Additional Information: Amy Blum, Medical Classification Specialist, Data Policy and Standards Staff, NCHS, 6526 Belcrest Road, Room 1100, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050 ext. 164 (diagnosis), Amy Gruber, Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Acute Care, HCFA, 7500 Security Blvd., Room C4-07-07, Baltimore, Maryland, 21244 telephone 410-786- 1542 (procedures).

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 thee Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Dated: April 16, 1999. Carolyn J. Russell, Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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