THOUGHT LEADERSHIP/ALERTS

Changes to the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance will take effect on December 23, 2011. HRAs must be amended by December 31 to continue in 2012. Nixon Peabody LLP’s Labor and Employment group provided this 2-hour online workshop to help employers address these last-minute compliance challenges.

Topics include:

1. Overview of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance requirements and enforcement.
2. New notice obligations and surcharge rules.
3. Administering the “rolling 24-month carryover” and other HRA requirements.
4. Compliance options and plan designs that work with federal health care reform.
5. Possibility of ERISA preemption.

This webinar addresses compliance that impacts all employers with employees in San Francisco. It is particularly important for those employers and administrators who use HRAs to comply with the ordinance.

During the final half-hour, the speakers address live participant questions using an audio conference call.

Speakers

• David Foster, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
• Tonie Bitseff, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP
• Joshua Henderson, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP

Panelists

• Robert Hayes, Owner, Custom Benefit Administrators
  President, NAPBA; President, TAAC
• Jennifer Lunski, Esq., Compliance Officer, Woodruff-Sawyer + Co.