{"abstract":"Section 401(a) of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), Public Law 111-3, amended the Social Security Act (the Act) to enact section 1139A (42 U.S.C. 1320b- 9a). Section 1139A(b) charged the Department of Health and Human Services with improving pediatric health care quality measures. This effort includes development of several new pediatric quality measures, including a pediatric readmission measure. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting comments from the public on an algorithm for identifying pediatric planned procedures as part of the readmission measure. The purpose of the algorithm is to identify, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) procedure codes, pediatric procedures that are usually planned so that admissions for these procedures can be excluded from calculations of readmission rates. To identify planned procedures, expert pediatric clinicians in 14 different procedure-oriented specialties reviewed procedures typically performed by their specialty. The reviewers indicated which procedures (1) are usually planned (defined as planned in more than 80% of cases) and (2) could require hospitalization. Admissions for which the primary procedure coded was one of these procedures are excluded from the count of readmissions. The list of ICD-9-CM codes and code descriptions for the planned procedures is available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/ pedprocedurecodes.html.","action":"Notice of request for comments on pediatric planned procedure algorithm from the members of the public.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality","name":"Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality","id":5,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agency-for-healthcare-research-and-quality","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/5","parent_id":221,"slug":"agency-for-healthcare-research-and-quality"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2013/09/19/2013-22796.html","cfr_references":[],"citation":"78 FR 57639","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":"2013-10-21","correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"Please submit comments October 21, 2013. AHRQ will not respond to individual comments, but will consider all comments.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":[],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2013-22796","effective_on":null,"end_page":57640,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"explanation":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2013/09/19/2013-22796.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/09/19/2013-22796/request-for-comments-on-pediatric-planned-procedure-algorithm","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2013-22796?publication_date=2013-09-19","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2013-09-19/2013-22796/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":2,"page_views":{"count":184,"last_updated":"2026-04-17 22:15:06 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2013-09-19/pdf/2013-22796.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2013-22796.pdf?1379508429","publication_date":"2013-09-19","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2013/09/19/2013-22796.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"supporting_documents":[],"comments_count":0,"agency_id":"AHRQ","comments_url":"https://www.regulations.gov/docketBrowser?rpp=50&so=DESC&sb=postedDate&po=0&dct=PS&D=AHRQ-2022-0004","supporting_documents_count":0,"docket_id":"AHRQ-2022-0004","document_id":"AHRQ-2022-0004-0422","regulation_id_number":null,"title":"AHRQ Archives","checked_regulationsdotgov_at":"2022-09-20T03:30:07Z"},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":57639,"subtype":null,"title":"Request for Comments on Pediatric Planned Procedure Algorithm","toc_doc":"Pediatric Planned Procedure Algorithm","toc_subject":null,"topics":[],"type":"Notice","volume":78}