Dr. Woodcock said it did not take unusually long to get the rule approved given federal procedures.

Unless costs were an explicit factor in an appeals process, a review board might feel compelled to approve such procedures, even when most other doctors think them unnecessary.

Make policy, approve procedures, and then let somebody else do the work.

Besides program cuts, it approved new procedures to rein in future deficits.

The online system would also handle administrative services like approving or denying medical procedures and processing payment claims.

Spending Cuts: Vote to approve procedures for debating $17 billion in spending cuts.

They can't go start approving risky experimental procedures, that's what he said.

Pursuant to Article 95 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Community has not usually approved such procedures.

Of course, approving measures and procedures to deal with the crisis does not in itself take you immediately out of the crisis.

The time it took Medicare to approve or disapprove medical procedures and devices listed below does not include the period for determining a dollar level of coverage.