Maureen Maly is the leader of the firm's ERISA, benefits and executive compensation group. Her practice focuses on employee benefits, with a particular expertise in health and welfare benefits issues, including health care reform, consumer-driven health plans such as HRAs and HSAs, cafeteria plan rules, wellness, COBRA, retiree medical, administrative contracts, and other health plan issues. She regularly helps companies design cost-effective health and welfare programs, while minimizing legal risks and administrative complications. Maureen leads the welfare benefits team that services many large, Fortune 500 clients. She is the editor of and a frequent contributor to the Faegre Baker Daniels health care reform blog.

In addition, Maureen regularly offers comprehensive advice on HIPAA privacy and security compliance. Representative engagements include counseling a Fortune 100 company through an OCR HIPAA audit of its group health plans, counseling a large insurance company on the application of HIPAA privacy and security rules to long-term care insurance products, assisting numerous clients with privacy and security breach incidents, designing and implementing HIPAA training programs, negotiating business associate contracts, and drafting detailed HIPAA privacy and security compliance policies and procedures.

Presentations

• HIPAA Audits
  33^rd Annual Advanced Employee Benefit Workshop, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, MCLE, 2013
• Health Care Reform – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  National Association of Health and Educational Facilities Finance Authorities (NAHEFFA) Fall Conference, September 2012
• Health Care Reform: Where Things Stand Now
  Bloomberg BNA Webinar, August 2012
• ERISA Litigation Update on Health Reform and Implications of Cigna v. Amara
  Minnesota State Bar Association, 2012
• Health Care Reform: Where Things Stand Now
  IOMA Webinar, 2011
• One Year After the Passage of Health Care Reform
  BNA Webinar, 2011
• Health Care Reform – 2011
  31^st Annual Advanced Employee Benefits Workshop, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, MCLE, 2011
• ADM Benefits Vendor Summit
  Archer Daniels Midland Company, 2011
• Health Care Reform One Year After Enactment
  RSM McGladrey CFO Club Meeting, 2011
• Of ERISA Fees and Fiduciaries: A Tale of Who Paid It and How Much 
  Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, MCLE, 2010
• Legal and Regulatory Update
  Integrated Delivery System Round Table, 2010  
• How Health Care Reform Will Affect Minnesota
  Minnesota Hospital Association, 2010
• How Does Health Care Reform Affect You and Your Bank?
  HR Roundtable Sponsored by Minnesota Bankers Association, 2010
• Wellness:  A World of Opportunities
  Faegre & Benson LLP Seminar, 2009
• New Proposed Cafeteria Plan Regulations
  Minneapolis Pension Council and Faegre & Benson LLP Seminar, 2008
• Decoding the Final 409A Regulations
  Faegre & Benson LLP Seminar, 2007
• Advanced Employee Benefits and Human Resources Compliance
  Stanton Group, Inc., 2006
• What Should Welfare Plans Look Like?
  Minnesota State Bar Association, 2005
• Health Plan Claims
  Minnesota State Bar Association, 2004
• COBRA for State and Local Government
  State and Local Government Human Resources Group, 2002
• An Employer's Guide to HIPAA Privacy
  Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 2002
• Prototype Issues for Employers
  Minnesota Institute for Employers, 2000