Marriage recognition would increase the government expenses for Social Security and Federal Employee Health Benefits but that increase would be more than made up for by decreased expenses for Medicaid, Medicare, and Supplemental Security Income.

*: Although the RBRVS system is mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) and the data for it appears in the Federal Register, the American Medical Association ( AMA ) maintains that their copyright of the CPT allows them to charge a license fee to anyone who wishes to associate RVU values with CPT codes.

Thomas A. Scully, head of the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services also criticized AstraZeneca for their aggressive marketing of Nexium.

In 2001, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) published a rule in the Federal Register that allows a state to be exempt from Medicare's physician supervision requirement for nurse anesthetists after appropriate approval by the state governor.

In return for serving all patients regardless of ability to pay, FQHCs receive consideration from the Federal government in the form of a cash grant, cost-based reimbursement for their Medicaid patients, and free malpractice coverage under the Federal Tort Claims Act ( FTCA ).

He put the Department through the most complete reorganization in its twenty-five year history ; created the Health Care Financing Administration ( HCFA ) to run Medicare and Medicaid ; mounted major health promotion and disease prevention programs, including childhood immunization, the first national anti-smoking campaign, an alcoholism initiative, and issuance of Healthy People, the first Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention which for the first time set health goals for the American people ; began the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars of defaulted student loans, and instituted computerized techniques to police welfare, Medicare and Medicaid programs ; worked with the Congress to maintain the financial integrity of the Social Security system, contain health care costs, and restructure Federal aid to elementary, secondary and higher education ; and issued the first regulations to provide equal opportunity to the handicapped and to provide equal athletic opportunity to women under Title IX.

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< http :// www. medicaid. gov / Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information / By-Topics / Financing-and-Reimbursement / Financing-and-Reimbursement. html >.</ ref > Federal funding covers about half of Medicaid costs and states are expected to cover the remainder.

Despite the copyrighted nature of the CPT code sets, the use of the code is mandated by almost all health insurance payment and information systems, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) and HIPAA, and the data for the code sets appears in the Federal Register.

2283, amended the Act to include Federal outlays as a proportion of the gross national product when calculating numerical goals.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of -

In fact, he authored and Congress passed a floor amendment stating, " Beginning with fiscal year 1981, the total budget outlays of the Federal Government should not exceed its receipts.

The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 introduced Federal Experimental Housing Allowance Program (" EHAP ") and Community Development Corporation and authorized larger outlays for housing subsidy programs and rent supplements for moderate-income households.

The Federal forces had taken Parkersburg and Grafton from the Rebels and were moving to take all the mountains.

Sources: Parts of an earlier version of this article were originally taken from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188.

However, in February 2006 the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany struck down these provisions of the law, stating such preventive measures were unconstitutional and would essentially be state-sponsored murder, even if such an act would save many more lives on the ground.

More controversially, officials of the Federal Reserve assisted in the negotiations that led to this bail-out, on the grounds that so many companies and deals were intertwined with LTCM that if LTCM actually failed, they would as well, causing a collapse in confidence in the economic system.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

These sets were expanded in 1963 to 7 bits of coding, called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) as the Federal Information Processing Standard which replaced the incompatible teleprinter codes in use by different branches of the U. S. government.

There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

Federal immigration inspectors were under strict supervision and were more interested in preventing inadmissible aliens from entering the country ( for which they were held accountable ) than in assisting them in trivial personal matters such as altering their names.

The novel is significant because it includes scenes that were cut out of the film, such as the Federal Reserve Depository robbery that results in Snake's incarceration.

These successes were followed by the enactment of a whole series of laws regulating waste ( Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ), toxic substances ( Toxic Substances Control Act ), pesticides ( FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ), clean-up of polluted sites ( Superfund ), protection of endangered species ( Endangered Species Act ), and more.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

* The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic ( West and East Germany ) were both recognised on January 7, 1972 by Finland.

When Ford approached the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) about regulatory issues, the critical problem was that the ( then ) known forms of air traffic control were inadequate for the volume of traffic Ford proposed.

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

The first Bundestag elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany (" West Germany ") on 14 August 1949.

Federal prosecutors estimated that the amount may total $20,000, altho a spokesman for the association estimated its loss at approximately $10,000.

By comparison, China had an estimated 114 people, the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) 246 people, and Japan 323 people per square kilometer in the late 1980s.

In 2004, the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress estimated that the Popular Defence Force, the military wing of the National Islamic Front, consists of 10, 000 active members, with 85, 000 reserves.

The case, which is being heard by the US Court of Federal Claims, puts on trial one of the most controversial and least understood aspects of the Iraq war: the outsourcing of military security to an estimated 20, 000 armed contractors.

With a large proportion of the U. S. population living near our sea and lake shores, and an estimated 75 % of U. S. vacations being spent at the beach, there has been Federal interest — and a Corps of Engineers mission — in protecting these areas from hurricane and coastal storm damage.

After building an estimated 2, 000 homes, Mort Engle sold his remaining to the U. S. Home Corporation and to the Federal Life Insurance Company and moved to Arizona.

The toll of 101 people dead and 88 ( estimated ) injured surpassed the 1971 Dahlerau train disaster as the deadliest accident in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2001 the International Organization for Migration estimated 400, 000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated 700, 000 and UNICEF estimated 1. 75 million.

In the late 1990s in the United States the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated that 5 % of murders were drug-related.

The entire Swiss Federal Railways network was out of service during rush hour and an estimated 200, 000 people and 1500 trains were stuck at stations or somewhere on the track.

Transfers from the Federal government are estimated to represent around a third of state GDP.

In the United States, the unemployment rate is estimated by a household survey called the Current Population Survey, conducted monthly by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The accident investigation determines that the crash resulted from improper maintenance and because the aircraft was overweight, Air Midwest having used Federal Aviation Administration-approved estimated passenger weight tables that had not been updated since 1936, when the average weight of an American passenger was 20 pounds ( 9 kg ) lighter than in 2003.

By 1977 it was estimated that the Federal government was providing approximately 75 % of regional council budgets.

Federal and state authorities are currently planning a Tappan Zee replacement bridge, with estimated completion in 2017.

While the practice had been recommended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since at least 1999, and was already followed at some health clinics, colleges and hospitals, and in the state of Massachusetts, many jurisdictions up until then refused to pay the estimated $ 800 cost of the rape examination without a police report filed by the victim.

The Falcon won the highly touted US Air Force Office Automation contract, initially estimated at $ 1. 7 billion, and the largest single computer contract the Federal government had awarded at that time.

" In Germany the total expenditure of the Empire, the Federal States, and the Communes in 1919-20 is estimated at 25 milliards of marks, of which not above 10 milliards are covered by previously existing taxation.

Since 1999, the Interagency Working Group ( IWG ) has declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1. 2 million pages of Office of Strategic Services records ; 50, 000 pages of Central Intelligence Agency name and subject files ; more than 350, 000 pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation subject files ; and nearly 300, 000 pages of Army intelligence files.

Between September 22 and November 3, 1863, Shelby's brigade travelled 1, 500 miles through Missouri, inflicting over 1, 000 casualties on Union forces, and capturing or destroying an estimated $ 2 million worth of Federal supplies and property.

A 2006 study estimated the value of the medicinal plants industry to be approximately two billion Ethiopian Birr annually, some 8 % of Ethiopia ’ s Federal budget at the time.