ICD-9-CM C&M Committee to Meet September 15 on PPACA Requirements for ICD-10 Crosswalk Revisions CMS Headquarters, 7500 Security Blvd, Baltimore, MD The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee will convene 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. Section 10109(c) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Reconciliation Act of 2010 (PPACA) requires that the C&M Committee 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 website at http://www.cms.gov/ICD10 for the purpose of making appropriate revisions to said crosswalk. Section 10109(c) further requires 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 website. The C&M Committee will use the first half of the first day of the September C&M Committee meeting, 9:00 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 revisions. Interested parties and other stakeholders should be prepared to submit their written comments and other relevant documentation at the meeting, or no later than November 12, 2010. For the complete Federal Register notice, please go to http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-16610.pdf . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to ( http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listserv s.pdf) . If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to ( https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to ( http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
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