2010 Health Benefit Plan Compliance Update

2010 Health Benefit Plan Compliance Update:
Navigating the Maze of New Laws
Co-Sponsored by CDHC Solutions and EmployersWeb.com

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Pacific)
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Detailed compliance requirements and implementation considerations
Opportunity to have your questions answered by the speaker

Register for $195
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Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act provisions effective in 2010, and impending regulations
Michelle's law: Continuation of Dependent Coverage for Applicable College Students
GINA: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
HIPAA HITECH Privacy Changes
Key state health care reform laws; plus other selected key topics may be addressed

Ashley Gillihan
Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP

During the past 15 years, keeping up with the myriad of new health and welfare benefit laws has been tough, starting with the landmark Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and continuing with a wide variety of health benefit federal and state laws and regulations that have emerged and evolved annually since that time.

Keeping up with the new laws in 2010 and beyond may prove to be the toughest challenge yet. Join Mr. Ashley Gillihan, Esq. of Alston & Bird, LLP for an interactive session where he walks you through both the fundamental elements of applicable new laws and the nuances of each that impact your policies and procedures.

Discussion topics include:

Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act provisions effective in 2010, and impending regulations
Michelle's law: Continuation of Dependent Coverage for Applicable College Students
GINA: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
HIPAA HITECH Privacy Changes
Key state health care reform laws
Additional key selected topics may be addressed

This session will examine complex and convoluted laws and regulations, and apply them to every day fact patterns so that you are able to have a better grasp of the requirements when you leave this session.

Interested attendees would include:

Health Benefit Administrators and Staff
Compliance Officers and Staff
Human Resources Executives and Staff
Legal Counsel
Regulatory Affairs Executives and Staff
Operations Executives and Staff
Health Insurance Marketing Executives
Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including

Employers
Third Party Administrators
Health Plans
Benefit Consultants
Agents
Employers and Third Party Administrators
Solutions Providers
Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
Media

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.

Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to your participation in this event!

Ashley Gillihan
Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP

Ashley Gillihan is counsel in the Atlanta office and a member of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and ERISA Litigation Groups. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians.

Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations.

Ashley is a member of the Employer’s Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) Technical Advisory Council and the board of editors for the Benefits and Compensation Law Alert, published by M. Lee Smith Publishers. He was named to the Benefits Committee for the Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc. and served from 2007-2008. He is also a faculty member for the Institute for Applied Management and Law (IAML), and is the primary author of the Flexible Benefits Answer Book published by Aspen Publishers.

Ashley received his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University and his law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1996. He is a member of the Alabama Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and the Georgia Bar Association.

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