CMS's Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of the utility's total distribution system.
One thing that might help would be for Scully's CMS to get looped in earlier in the FDA's approval process.
Nominally, CMS is an U.S. company -- and therefore appears to be benefiting from the preferred consideration the Kuwaitis pledged to give U.S. enterprises in reconstructing their ravaged country.
Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.
However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a "decision memo" stating that only people having certain serious heart conditions or cardiac histories are suitable candidates for ICDs.
The cards could allow those recipients who do have drug coverage to get more drugs for the same amount of money, or perhaps not reach their out-of-pocket limits as quickly, said a spokesman for HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers Medicare.
He added that it's not uncommon for hospitals to be out of compliance with CMS rules.
"I think CMS would like to get more of an early indication of what's in the pipeline, " says Collins.
But neither CMS nor the CBO include in their 10-year projections the program's future liabilities.
She said the time factor might explain the study's finding of an increase in deaths among implant patients who did not meet CMS criteria.
The trade association America's Health Insurance Plans had launched an intense lobbying and marketing push after the initial CMS announcement.
If so, the CMS and MIT teams may well answer a raft of questions about subatomic physics while further justifying CERN's giant underground rings.
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