{"id":3724,"date":"2005-03-31T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T00:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/03\/31\/acronymically-challenged\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:50","slug":"acronymically-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/03\/31\/acronymically-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"acronymically challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quick<\/EM>: What’s the acronym for <\/FONT>Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the federal agency formerly known as <\/FONT>HCFA<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>?   If you said “CMMS” you <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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would officially be wrong<\/EM> (but see, One Look’s Acronym Finder<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>).  Instead,<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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you’ll find a “CMS” logo throughout the Centers’ website. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"cmsLogoN\"  If you don’t believe the logo, “CMS” has made it easy to check further —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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there’s a link in the Side Bar to an <\/FONT>Acronyms Page<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, which offers a search engine<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that features both simple and advanced acronym searches.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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No kidding:  A search engine just for relevant acronyms.  Plus, another webpage <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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w<\/FONT>ith <\/FONT>an Acronyms List<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> that is so long, they tell you:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Warning:<\/STRONG> Due to the size of the acronym list, you may experience a  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Acronym Search<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Plug CMMS<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>> into the agency’s acronym search engine, and you are told “No <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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acronyms were found.”  Try CMS<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>> and you’re told “Centers for Medicare and <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Medicaid Services.”  That’s pretty definitive — only One M.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  Quick: What’s the acronym for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency formerly known as HCFA?   If you said “CMMS” you would officially be wrong (but see, One Look’s Acronym Finder).  Instead, you’ll find a “CMS” logo throughout the Centers’ website.     If you don’t believe the logo, “CMS” has made it easy to check further — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Y4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}