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Phase I Final Stark Rule Issued

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 01.31.01

On January 4, 2001, HCFA published the first phase of the long-awaited final rule implementing the federal Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (the "Stark Law") expansion to include ten designated health services. Click here for Crowell & Moring's analysis of the final regulation.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.10.26

Federal Circuit Clarifies Application of Blue & Gold: Proposal Submission Deadline, Not Award, is the Operative Time for Filing

In Utech, Inc. v. United States, No. 24-1586 (Fed. Cir. June 24, 2026), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified that in most cases, a pre-award protest must be filed before the proposal submission deadline to avoid the Blue & Gold waiver rule.  This decision, while nonprecedential, is in line with U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) precedent, which has long held that pre-award protests must be filed before the proposal submission deadline....