Many new regulations and guidance documents on health care reform have been issued in 2011. You are invited to attend a complimentary seminar hosted by Stoel Rives LLP that will provide a review on the newest developments in this quickly changing area of the law for group health plans. Our lawyers will address the new rules for employers and the group health plans they sponsor for their employees. In addition, our attorneys will look ahead to 2012 and beyond, including how the "pay or play" mandates will affect both employers and employees. The presentation by Stoel Rives attorneys Howard Bye, Melanie Curtice and Erin Lennon will include:

• New claims and appeals regulations, including new rules for internal and external appeals
• W-2 guidance: reporting the value of health care coverage to employees
• Update on "pay or play" mandates and health insurance exchanges
• Status of court cases testing constitutionality of the health care reform law

For more information about this seminar, please contact Gwyn Ganjeau at (206) 386-7645 or gmganjeau@stoel.com. For any other questions, please contact Trina Gremaux at (503) 294-9226 or tcgremaux@stoel.com.

This seminar will be hosted in other Stoel Rives offices. The schedule for upcoming Health Care Reform: Group Health Plan Update 2011 seminars is as follows.