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Crystal-Ball Jurisprudence Critiqued

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.17.09

In the ABA's latest edition of the Public Contract Law Journal (Winter 2009), Crowell & Moring's Rick Claybrook suggests in his article, Please Check Your Crystal Ball at the Courtroom Door--A Call for the Judiciary in Bid Protest Actions to Let Agencies Do Their Job, that the CFC and Federal Circuit need to reanalyze their review and use of the prejudice standard in bid protest actions. He suggests that the courts usurp the procuring agency's function when they prognosticate what the agency will do upon remand of an illegal procurement and outlines a more deferential prejudice standard.

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Client Alert | 6 min read | 04.29.26

CMS Seeks to Expand Interoperability Requirements to Drug Pre-Authorization (FAQ)

On April 10, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (2026 CMS Interoperability Standards and Prior Authorization for Drugs, or CMS-0062-P) outlining the agency’s plans to impose new interoperability requirements on payors participating in certain Medicare and Medicaid programs. As described by the agency in a recent press release, the proposed rule “builds on” prior rulemaking by clarifying and enhancing interoperability requirements for payors’ prior authorization processes, specifically those associated with coverage requests for pharmaceutical therapies....