ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.., September 24, 2008. 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., September 25, 2008. 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 first meeting of the 2008 calendar year cycle on Wednesday and Thursday September 24-25, 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. Tentative agenda items include: Activity codes Acute Life Threatening Event (ALTE) Colic Congestive heart failure Dysphonia Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia EpilepsyFailed sedation Fitting/adjustment, gastric band Fluency disorders Gout Merkel cell carcinoma Pouchitis Sleep maintenance Traumatic brain injury Tumor lysis syndrome Venous thrombosis embolism Addenda (diagnoses) Cardiac contractility modulation Endoscopic insertion of colonic stent Endoscopic valve insertion Infrared vascular imaging Intraoperative Anesthetic Effect Monitoring and Titration Intravitreal injectable Thermal therapy for brain tumors Addenda (procedures) ICD-10 update and effect on MS-DRGs Cooperating Parties Update