Judith Wethall’s practice focuses on employee benefits, specifically health and welfare programs. She counsels employers, plan administrators, insurers and consultants on a wide range of ERISA compliance issues. Judith's clients include sole proprietors to Fortune 100 companies and cover a variety of industries including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance and financial. She has extensive experience in:

• Health care reform
• Medicaid/Medicare issues
• Disability leave and FMLA
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security compliance
• Subrogation and claims reimbursement issues
• Coordination of benefits issues
• State and local compliance issues
• Wellness program design and compliance
• Consumer driven health care initiatives, including HRAs and HSAs
• Health care continuation coverage (COBRA)
• Fringe benefit programs
• Executive physical programs
• Cafeteria plans
• Domestic partnership coverage

Judith represents clients before state and federal departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Office of Civil Rights with regard to HIPAA privacy/security violations and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with regard to Medicare retiree subsidies and the Department of Labor (DOL) with regard to health and welfare plan audits. Judith has extensive experience with payroll audits and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Former committee member, Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB)