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Benefits Counseling

Employee benefits and insurance law are constantly evolving. Regulatory schemes are becoming increasingly complex, while lawmakers struggle to balance competing interests. Rules — and their exceptions — often conflict and require sophisticated legal analyses across specialties. Insurers and financial institutions offer a wide variety of products that are new to the employee benefits industry and are difficult to understand, select, and operationalize. Many factors determine what benefit package will work for any given company at any given time, calling for an interdisciplinary approach to plan design.

McDonough Holland & Allen’s Benefits Group unites experienced, talented, and innovative attorneys in health care, insurance, employment, finance, and tax law. Bringing distinct perspectives, histories of professional achievement, and decades of experience to each engagement, our Benefits Group offers a full range of services in connection with the design, administration, and operation of insurance products, financial products, and health-related benefits.

Our Benefits Group provides comprehensive counsel on:

• Health care and other benefits, including insurance policies and other health-related contracts
• Wellness programs
• Privacy and HIPAA complianc
• Finance, including HRAs, HSAs, and other accounts
• Executive compensation
• Litigation
• Fiduciary and tax issues

Philosophy
Our Benefits Group attorneys recognize that legal advice is only as good as an attorney’s understanding of a client’s business concerns, strategic objectives, financial goals, and company culture. We know that an effective benefit program must be designed to reflect the unique profile of the employer’s workforce, support the employer’s business objectives, and fit the culture of the workplace. Most of all, we appreciate the critical importance of fundamental fairness and positive perception, as well as efficiency and cost-effectiveness, in the design and implementation of employee benefits programs.

Strategy & Solution
Our Benefits Group attorneys understand that successful companies have competing priorities. We work in partnership with private employers, financial institutions, non-profit groups, government agencies, and other decision-makers to address these priorities in an appropriately detailed action plan. We guide employers, agents, brokers, and other fiduciary agents in making sound, informed decisions, identifying the impact of these decisions, and providing concrete support when these decisions lead to change.

Our experience working with health plans, hospitals, physician groups, brokers, agents, third-party administrators, employers and employees has given us the skill to guide companies through the complexities of plan designs and integrated programs. We suggest new products or benefits and make sure the employer is complying with new laws and requirements. We also provide tools to help employers gain “buy-in” from their employees.

We understand that changes to employee benefits often cause concern because health and financial matters are at stake. When we counsel clients about these types of changes, we balance the sensitivities of all concerned, recognizing the importance to our clients of capturing the mindshare and engendering the enthusiasm of the employees.

Forward Thinking
Where others see complexity and problems, our Benefits Group sees opportunities, efficiency improvements, and imaginative approaches; we look beyond "what is" to "what could be."

The next 10 years will bring dynamic changes in benefits structures as the healthcare industry responds to major legislative initiatives to improve healthcare delivery and decrease or contain costs. Our Benefits Group will be there — looking for innovative health management, financial, and legal solutions.