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Michelle M. Macias, MD (term expires 2014) Medical University of SC Email: maciasm@musc.edu	Lynn M. Wegner, MD (term expires 2013) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Email: lwegner@med.unc.edu

SDBP AND AAP COLLABORATIVE CODING

In the fall of 2010, the Executive Committees of SDBP and AAP SODBP agreed to form a committee focused on issues related to medical diagnostic (ICD-9-CM) and procedural (CPT) codes. Michelle Macias, current chairperson of the SODBP EC, and I are the inaugural co-chairpersons and we have developed a preliminary statement of purpose for the Committee:

This Committee is being formed as an organized effort to support the practice of child and adolescent developmental and behavioral care. Health services must have adequately valued Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes. Moreover, there must be codes accurately describing services particularly used in specialty DB care as well as DB care provided by general pediatric medical providers. Diagnostic codes (International Classification of Diseases-9th Edition, ICD-9-CM) also must be developed to enable, when possible, specific description of conditions encountered in rendering developmental and behavioral care.

With all good intentions, we had planned to have a series of conference calls this winter/spring to get all interested parties together and discuss issues. However, one of us (LW) broke her hip in January as she was trying to pull her daughters' wedding together while continuing her day job (of being the only db pediatrician at UNC).

Now, with several items put to rest we are really getting this group in gear!
Interested? You do NOT have to have any coding expertise ! just an interest in learning more about these issues and participating in these endeavors. What would this entail? Probably one conference call every 4 months, reviewing code proposals, and occasionally working on Powerpoint slides for presentations.