However, this approach would result in a disastrous situation for doctors who are not set up to handle the huge administrative difficulties that would result from having to re-bill along with enormous stress on the CMS payment system.

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But instead of coming up with a new system, CMS took the full year to do largely nothing.

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Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.

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Meanwhile, if other specialties are flourishing under the current payment system, maybe the CMS can take a look at how we allocate our available Medicare and Medicaid funds to make things work in a more reasonable fashion.

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PalmSource also hopes to expand its business worldwide by using CMS technology to develop a new version of its Palm operating system that will run on Linux-based phone sets.

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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.

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