Nationally recognized, Susan is described as “an excellent partner who uniformly demonstrates a mastery of her subject matter area and the ability to deliver helpful, practical advice on complex questions in a fastpaced environment.” (Chambers USA 2024). Nash is a go-to lawyer in the area of employer-sponsored health and welfare benefits. She assists employers, health plans, insurers, and vendors with their healthcare reform strategy and compliance with laws affecting group health plans. Nash is well-versed in laws affecting health and welfare benefits, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the CARES Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and the Internal Revenue Code. She also has extensive experience with innovative employee health benefit strategies, design, and funding, such as employer/provider direct contracting, health plan transparency and fiduciary issues, data privacy, disease management and wellness programs, telehealth, on-site clinics, cafeteria plans, private healthcare exchanges, VEBAs, as well as consumer-directed health plans such as health reimbursement arrangements and health savings accounts. She also advises employers with respect to fringe benefits and state mandated benefit laws. Nash represents clients in health plan audits with governmental agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services, and effectively represents employers and health plans in negotiations with third-party vendors for health and welfare plan services. She is co-chair of the firm’s Health and Welfare Plan Group and is a member of the prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel