Maggie Platzer

My Approach

The laws that govern employee benefits, executive compensation, and health care are complex and frequently changing.   My primary focus is helping clients understand their regulatory obligations, navigate compliance issues, and find practical and cost-effective solutions to achieve their business goals.  I help all types of companies, governmental entities, and higher education institutions understand their compliance obligations and provide timely, sensible, and prudent solutions to benefit management.

Practice Areas

Employee Benefits

My experience includes:

• Advising clients with respect to the design, implementation and termination of qualified retirement plans, including 401(k), 403(b), profit-sharing, and defined benefit plans
• Educating retirement plan committee members about their ERISA fiduciary obligations and developing risk management strategies
• Assisting plan sponsors with IRS and DOL audits and administrative corrections
• Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance, including compliance with employer shared responsibility, eligibility, and controlled group classifications requirements
• Self-insuring health plans and maintaining ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, mental health parity and ACA requirements
• Managing defined contribution health arrangements, including: health savings accounts (HSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs)

Executive Compensation

My experience includes:

• Drafting, reviewing, and amending executive compensation and non-qualified deferred compensation plans
• Implementing employee stock option plans (ESOPs) and other profit-sharing plans

Healthcare Compliance

My experience includes:

• Developing and implementing HIPAA-compliant privacy and security policies and procedures
• Reviewing privacy agreements and transactions involving patient records
• Assisting clients with HIPAA risk assessments and security incident management and mitigation
• Reviewing provider contracts, including network participation agreements
• Advising provider clients regarding Medicare and Vermont’s Medicaid participation rules
• Advising clients on compliance with health care fraud and abuse rules, such as the Stark and anti-kickback laws

Experience

• Assistant General Counsel and Privacy Officer, Delta Dental of Massachusetts, Inc., Boston, MA (2007 – 2011).
• Clerk, General Counsel of the Department of Financial Regulation, formerly known as the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities, and Health Care Administration (“BISHCA”) (2005 – 2007).
• Advised large hospitals and provider groups regarding creation and management of population health management systems in Vermont.
• Assisted large provider groups with coding and Medicaid compliance.
• Assisted clients in submitting Certificate of Need applications to Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board.