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Government Contracts Training - GC 101 and OOPS

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.12.20

The Government Contracts Group is pleased to announce that our GC 101 and OOPS conferences have been scheduled for 2020. GC 101 will be held September 21-25, 2020 and OOPS will be held October 19-22, 2020. Both will take place virtually over the course of several days. The format will be different, but our practitioners will still provide the same high quality information. Registration information, including agendas, can be found here for GC 101 and here for OOPS. We hope you will join the Crowell team for these special events!

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Client Alert | 7 min read | 08.19.26

CMS’s Final Rule Bans Federal Medicaid Funding for Youth Gender-Affirming Care

On August 13, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final rule banning the use of federal funds — through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — to pay for gender-affirming care for children and youth. The final rule takes effect October 13, 2026 (“Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children”). While CMS finalized several key elements of its late-2025 proposed rule (Client Alert December 24, 2025), the proposed Medicare hospital Condition of Participation rule remains in proposed form....