Notices. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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BILLING CODE 4163-18-P 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. *Times and Dates:* 9 a.m.-5 p.m., November 1-2, 2001. *Place:* Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)(formerly 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 final meeting of the 2001 calendar year cycle on Thursday and Friday Nov. 1-2, 2001.
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: Discussion on use of V codes for procedures Heart failure Aftercare codes Vascular disease Facial droop following CVA Ectopic pregnancy with uterine pregnancy Pulmonary complications of cystic fibrosis Asthma Severe sepsis West Nile Virus Paint ball injury Abnormal pap smear ICD-10-PCS Update Implantation of intramuscular electrodes Brain wafer chemotherapy Cardiac resynchronization therapy Implantation of neosphincter Spinal procedures-360 fusion, Interbody Fusion Devices, InFUSE bone grafts Repair of Aneurysm/Arteriovenous malformation Hepatic hemodialysis Therapeutic ultrasound Infusion of Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) Adhesion barriers for abdominal surgery Extra-corporeal immunoadsorption
(ECI)Intraoperative MRI Administration of inhaled nitric oxide Drug-Eluting stent Injection or infusion of Human B-type natriuretic peptide
(hBNP)Addenda *For Further Information Contact:* Amy Blum, Medical Classification Specialist, Data Policy and Standards Staff, NCHS, 6526 Belcrest Road, Room 1100, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/458-4106 (diagnosis), Amy Gruber, Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Acute Care, CMS, 7500 Security Blvd., Room C4-07-07, Baltimore, Maryland, 21244 telephone 410-786-1542 (procedures). *Notice:* In the interest of security,
(CMS)has instituted stringent procedures for entrance into the building by non-government employees. Persons without a government I.D. will need to show a photo I.D. and sign-in at the security desk upon entering the building. *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: October 1, 2001. Carolyn J. Russell, Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 01-25050 Filed 10-4-01; 8:45 am]