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Firm News 6 results

Firm News | 8 min read | 01.02.25

Crowell & Moring Elects 12 New Partners, Promotes Four to Senior Counsel and 25 to Counsel

Crowell & Moring elected 12 new partners effective January 1, 2025. The firm also promoted four lawyers to the senior counsel and 25 associates to counsel.

Firm News | 8 min read | 01.09.23

Crowell & Moring Elects 16 New Partners, Promotes Five to Senior Counsel, and 25 to Counsel

Crowell & Moring elected 16 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2023. The firm also promoted five lawyers to the position of senior counsel and 25 associates to the position of counsel.

Firm News | 1 min read | 10.21.22

Inland Counties Legal Services Names Alice Hall-Partyka as Volunteer of the Year

Los Angeles – October 21, 2022: Inland Counties Legal Services has named Crowell & Moring associate Alice Hall-Partyka as the Volunteer of the Year in recognition of her efforts to “make access to justice a reality in Riverside & San Bernardino Counties.” The award was presented at the Advocates for Justice celebration on October 20 in Riverside, CA.
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Client Alerts 28 results

Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.14.26

Mental Health Parity Bulletin Restates Best Practices for Evaluating Compliance

On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued “Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03” to clarify compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL). Under the 2013 final rule implementing MHPAEA, health plans and issuers must use comparable processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors when applying NQTLs and they cannot apply such methods more stringently to benefits for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) compared to benefits for general medical and surgical care. While the bulletin doesn’t break much new ground on compliance, it does reaffirm existing enforcement priorities and expectations. 
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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.
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Client Alert | 6 min read | 06.11.26

CMS Announces New Medicaid Eligibility Requirements: Implications for Managed Care Plans

On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an interim final rule with comment (IFC) instructing all state Medicaid agencies to incorporate “community engagement” as an eligibility condition for program participation by no later than January 1, 2027. The rule (Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals) does not impose affirmative operational obligations for Medicaid managed care plans, as it focuses primarily on equipping the states to administer the community engagement requirement. However, it does establish a few specific guardrails to govern the role managed care organizations, prepaid inpatient health plans, and prepaid ambulatory health plans may — and may not — play in that administration.
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Press Coverage 2 results

Publications 6 results

Publication | 04.24.26

Medicaid Plan M&A: Navigating an Increasingly Complex State Environment

American Health Law Association’s Health Law Weekly

Publication | 03.06.25

Street Medicine in California: Opportunities and Challenges

California Health Law News

Webinars 2 results

Webinar | 09.25.25

HOOPS 2025

We invite you to join the Health Care Group at Crowell for our Health Care Opportunities, Oversight, Policy, and Strategy (HOOPS) Summer Webinar Series. 

Webinar | 09.13.24, 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

Navigating the New MHPAEA Final Rule: Compliance and Enforcement Insights

On September 9, 2024, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services released a final rule implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). The rule clarifies and codifies the heightened standards that health plans and issuers are held to in documenting and ensuring MHPAEA compliance, amidst a landscape of increased regulatory enforcement and MHPAEA investigations. Given this heightened focus, it’s critical that plans and issuers proactively ensure compliance before regulators request required compliance documentation.

Speaking Engagements 9 results

Blog Posts 17 results

Blog Post | 03.04.26

Let’s Talk FCA: Gender-Affirming Care and Anti-DEI Executive Orders

 Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Podcasts 5 results

Podcast | 03.02.26

Let’s Talk FCA: Gender-Affirming Care and Anti-DEI Executive Orders

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Podcast | 02.20.25

Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Gender-Affirming Care

Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! is Crowell & Moring’s health care podcast, discussing legal and regulatory issues that affect health care entities’ in-house counsel, executives, and investors.
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Podcast | 10.22.24

Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: The New MHPAEA Final Rule – Key Takeaways and Insights

In this episode, hosts Payal Nanavati and Megan Beaver talk to Alice Hall-Partyka and Spencer Bruck about the recently released Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) final rule. Alice and Spencer delve into the key new provisions of the rule, including the requirements for Non-Quantitative Treatment Limitations comparative analyses and the focus on data outcomes.
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