Beth Mandel

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Beth, a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice in Cincinnati, assists employers with the design, implementation and operation of welfare and fringe benefit plans. She advises on Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA and Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance and assists clients in navigating the increasingly complex web of federal and state benefit regulations. Her day-to-day work includes counseling clients on the expanding group health plan transparency and reporting requirements, addressing benefit plan considerations related to hot-button issues like reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, and helping clients work through more traditional taxation, ERISA, privacy and ACA issues.

Beth regularly assists clients with establishing or updating welfare and cafeteria plan documents, summary plan descriptions, fringe benefit plans and related documents; reviews and negotiates service provider agreements; and helps clients identify creative and practical solutions to benefit design and administration challenges. She guides health plan sponsors through HIPAA privacy and security compliance and assists with responding to and mitigating risks from HIPAA security incidents and breaches. She also consults on claims litigation defense, and she has experience counseling clients on benefits issues arising from corporate transactions.

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