Healthcare Reform: Impact for Employers
Navigating the Sweeping Changes for Group Health Plans
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide counsel to employers and group plans with an overview of the healthcare reform law's mandates. The panel will discuss actions employers and plans must take immediately and those to prepare for in the years ahead.
Outline
- Employer mandates
- Coverage requirements and plan changes
- Tax and financial implications
- What employer and group plans need to do now
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What penalties do employers face for not providing health coverage or for providing "unaffordable" coverage?
- What coverage mandates are included in the new bill — and when must these changes be made?
- How does the legislation protect "grandfathered" plans?
Faculty
Amy M. Gordon
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery
She focuses her practice on the areas of welfare benefits, including self-funded and insured health plans. She assists... | Read More
She focuses her practice on the areas of welfare benefits, including self-funded and insured health plans. She assists clients in designing and maintaining compliant flexible benefit, life, medical, dental, pharmacy, EAP, educational assistance, disability, supplemental health, severance, Health Savings Accounts, Health Reimbursement Accounts, and other types of welfare plans. Her past experience includes service with the Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, where she prepared a number of high profile civil and criminal litigation actions brought by the DOL and U.S. Attorney’s office.
CloseKeith R. McMurdy
Partner
Fox Rothschild
He focuses primarily on labor and employment issues arising from the design, drafting and administration of employee... | Read More
He focuses primarily on labor and employment issues arising from the design, drafting and administration of employee benefits plans. He represents benefit plans, plan sponsors, plan administrators, third-party administrators and insurers. He is a frequent speaker on employee benefits topics, including plan administration, regulatory compliance and litigation avoidance.
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