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Susan Nash
- Phone+1 312-558-8086
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Position
Known as a “strong communicator” with a “very high level of technical proficiency” (Chambers USA 2023), Susan Nash is a go-to lawyer in the area of health care reform and health and welfare benefits. She assists employers, health plans, insurers, and vendors with their health care reform strategy and compliance with laws affecting group health plans.
Susan is well-versed in laws affecting health and welfare plans, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the CARES Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and the Internal Revenue Code. She also has extensive experience with innovative employee health benefit strategies, design, and funding, such as employer direct contracting with providers, health plan transparency, data privacy, population health management, disease management and wellness programs, telehealth, on-site clinics, cafeteria plans, private healthcare exchanges, VEBAs, as well as consumer-directed health plans such as health reimbursement arrangements and health savings accounts. She also advises employers with respect to federal and state paid leave requirements, fringe benefits, paid-time off, and paid leave donation programs.