Annual Membership Meeting, NEBGH Members only, Virtual Event

2022 Mid-Term Elections: What They Mean for Employers

This is a NEBGH Members Only Event. If you are interested in attending, contact Elizabeth Merrill.

What will change for employers – and what won’t change – as a result of mid-term election results?

What happened politically, and what are the ramifications for legislation, policy and regulations that affect you?

Are there issues likely to end up in front of the Supreme Court and/or state courts that will impact your DE&I activities and women’s health benefits post Dobbs?

Get essential insights you can share with your leadership from the experts at Epstein Becker Green just two days after the mid-terms!

Speakers

Gretchen Harders

Member of the Firm
Epstein Becker Green

Attorney Gretchen Harders helps companies ensure the health and welfare of their employees with compliant and tax-efficient health care and retirement benefit plans. She also advises multinational employers on designing and implementing equity-based compensation packages to incentivize top-level executives.

Clients value Gretchen’s commitment to understanding their challenges and her ability to break down the complex rules governing their programs. She explains highly intricate tax laws and ERISA regulations from a business perspective. Tax-exempt and not-for-profit institutions rely on her advice to ensure compliance for their pension plans, executive compensation, deferred compensation, and employee benefits.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gretchen helped numerous clients use disaster-relief tax provisions and coordinate with new benefit providers to give employees access to health and wellness benefits through secure mobile apps. As companies grapple with Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rules, Gretchen’s analysis and insight inform practical solutions for updating and changing benefits plans. When implementing a post-merger rollover of benefits, she helps employers see beyond the technical aspects of their decisions to anticipate how their actions will be perceived by employees and the public.

Gretchen is a frequent speaker on various employee benefits issues and developments. She authors articles on timely ERISA and employee benefits law topics.

Additionally, Gretchen is a trustee of the Helene Fuld School of Nursing and an officer in the Rotary Club of the Palisades. Her interests include reading, playing piano, and coaching youth soccer.

Philo D. Hall

Member of the Firm
Epstein Becker Green

Drawing upon nearly 12 years of experience in a series of federal government health policy positions, attorney Philo Hall brings insight into the legal, policy, budgetary, and political factors influencing federal agency decision-making.

Philo’s experience includes:

  • Counseling health plans, providers, manufacturers, and related investors on complex reimbursement issues arising under Medicare and Medicaid law and policies
  • Advising health systems, health plans, and providers on the legal and regulatory matters arising under the transition to value-based care reimbursement and accountable care
  • Providing interpretive and practical advice regarding the oversight and compliance requirements unique to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug plans, as well as responding to related federal sanctions
  • Advising health care providers, health-related companies, financial institutions, and investors of health care industry trends and relevant federal and state public policy developments
  • Aiding health care providers, health plans, and related companies in the development and operation of out-of-network billing arrangements to assure compliance with federal and state laws
  • Advising public and private clients in the development of legislative and regulatory advocacy strategies involving government health programs, including assisting with the development and implementation of public stakeholder engagement efforts
  • Counseling clients and conducting regulatory due diligence in connection with various strategic transactions, such as  mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Philo served as Counselor to Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that role, Philo directly advised the Secretary and the White House on a diverse portfolio of issues facing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (also known as “SAMHSA”), the Office of Civil Rights, the Administration for Children and Families, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

Philo earlier served as Associate Director for Health on the staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council, advising the President of the United States and senior staff on emerging health care issues, legislation, and regulatory matters. This position involved overseeing federal agency implementation of the administration’s health care priorities, with a particular focus on behavioral health, including managing the formation and operation of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Philo also served on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, under Chairman James M. Jeffords (R-VT), where he developed legislation on Medicare provider reimbursement, commercial insurance regulation, and health information privacy.

During law school, Philo was a judicial intern for the Hon. Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; a member of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy; and a student attorney at Columbus Community Legal Services, representing low-income elderly clients in the District of Columbia.

Event details

When
Thursday, November 10, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where
Webinar (Link available following registration)
Who Can Attend
All NEBGH Members
November 10

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