Trucker Huss, APC is pleased to announce that director Tiffany N. Santos will join a panel of speakers on the ABA webinar titled “Health Plan Savings with Direct Contracting with Health Care Providers – How to Structure and Avoid Compliance Pitfalls” sponsored by the Joint Committee on Employee Benefits on Thursday, February 28, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The panel will address the continued rise of health plan costs and the various types of direct contracting arrangements, benefits of direct contracting, complexities from the perspectives of the provider, plan and administrator and allocation of responsibilities financial risk sharing and incentive payments, care coordination and legal compliance, including ERISA and avoiding prohibited transactions, HIPAA, antitrust, and other federal and state law requirements.

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Tiffany Santos counsels employers and multiemployer trusts on all aspects of their employee benefit plans, including health and welfare plans, Section 125 cafeteria plans, and qualified retirement plans. She assists clients with compliance matters; administrative and plan design issues; plan, SPD and amendment drafting; IRS submissions; IRS and DOL investigations; and the review and negotiation of service provider agreements, including investment manager agreements. Tiffany frequently makes presentations on health plan matters, including health care reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010), HIPAA, COBRA, and cafeteria plans, and on investment-related matters, including ERISA’s impact on alternative investments.