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CMS Proposes Changes to Overly Burdensome Rules

by King & Spalding on 2/15/2013

On February 4, 2013, CMS proposed certain reforms to Medicare regulations that would eliminate or change rules seen as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on hospitals and other health care providers. The...more

COP18 - Doha 2012: Day 12 & 13 of the Conference

by Pryderi Diebschlag, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman | Reed Smith on 12/12/2012

Introduction - The plenary sessions of the AWG-LCA and AWG-DP finally closed in the late afternoon of Friday 7 December 2012, leaving many issues to be put to the COP for resolution. With the COP meeting only opening for...more

COP18 - Doha 2012: Day 8 of the Conference

by Pryderi Diebschlag, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman | Reed Smith on 12/5/2012

Introduction - “It must be understood that what we are negotiating here is a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world. This cannot happen overnight…” said Christiana Figueres, the head of the UN...more

COP18 - Doha 2012: Day 5, 6 & 7 of the Conference

by Pryderi Diebschlag, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman | Reed Smith on 12/3/2012

The prospect of having nothing clearly agreed after a week of negotiations seemed to hang over proceedings on Friday 30 November 2012. However, as the sun set on Saturday 1 December 2012, the delegates’ motivation began to...more

COP18 - Doha 2012: Day 4 of the Conference

by Pryderi Diebschlag, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman | Reed Smith on 12/3/2012

Introduction - With finance at the top of the agenda on “Youth Day” Thursday 29 November 2012 there was broad concern to avoiding falling down a “climate finance cliff” as the European Commission’s lead climate...more

COP18 - Doha 2012: Day 1 of the Conference

by Pryderi Diebschlag, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman | Reed Smith on 11/27/2012

Introduction - The 18th Conference of the Parties (“COP”) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the “Convention”) opened in the vast new conference centre in Doha, Qatar, yesterday to the words...more

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