Your employees use their health and welfare benefits on an almost daily basis, making them a highly-visible and important component of employee compensation. At the same time, an employee’s unfavorable experience with a health plan can permanently damage an employer’s goodwill with its employees. Our professionals have a wealth of experience in designing employee health and welfare benefit programs that are cost effective and understandable, while providing benefits that are valued by the employees that use them. Our attorneys work closely with our clients’ human resources personnel in drafting plan related documents and in promoting effective plan administration. We use a fiduciary best practices approach to educate our clients on how to identify and control risk of legal liability in connection with their health and welfare programs.
Your employees use their health and welfare benefits on an almost daily basis, making them a highly-visible and important component of employee compensation. At the same time, an employee’s unfavorable experience with a health plan can permanently damage an employer’s goodwill with its employees. Our professionals have a wealth of experience in designing employee health and welfare benefit programs that are cost effective and understandable, while providing benefits that are valued by the employees that use them. Our attorneys work closely with our clients’ human resources personnel in drafting plan related documents and in promoting effective plan administration. We use a fiduciary best practices approach to educate our clients on how to identify and control risk of legal liability in connection with their health and welfare programs. Over the years we have negotiated a wide variety of service provider contracts for our clients’ health and welfare plans, and regularly integrate our services with those of our clients’ service providers. We work with plans that are self-insured, fully-insured, and funded through trusts. The Employee Benefits Group was at the forefront in providing educational seminars on the 2010 Health Care Reform legislation, and continues to provide guidance to our clients as the law in this area develops. Our experience includes all aspects of cafeteria plans, including the trend toward consumer-driven health care. We have helped employers transition into high deductible health plans with a health savings account, and can help you understand what you need to know to ensure that other welfare benefits you provide do not cause your high deductible health plan to be out of compliance with the law. We closely follow developing case law regarding retiree health care in union and non-union contexts, and our attorneys help clients analyze their obligations to provide retiree health care benefits. Butzel Long attorneys can conduct a compliance review of your health and welfare benefit operations, to help you avoid unknowing mistakes that can lead to unwanted liability.