AI in Employee Benefits Administration: Navigating the Legal Framework, Fiduciary Considerations, State Law Issues

Mr. Bianchi is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice who advises corporate, not-for-profit, governmental, and individual clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health, and welfare plans. He represented the Romney Administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he testified before the Senate Finance Committee in the lead-up to the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Bianchi published works include the Bloomberg/Bureau of National Affairs Health Care Reform Advisor (T.M. 335), a comprehensive study of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers and employer-sponsored group health plans. In 2025, he earned a certificate in AI in Health Care: From Strategies to Implementation from Harvard Medical School Executive Education, reflecting a growing focus on AI in health care for plan sponsors. Mr. Bianchi is a past chair of the Bloomberg Tax Compensation Planning Journal Advisory Board, and he was awarded the 2023 Bloomberg Tax Leonard L. Silverstein Award for Distinguished Service in Tax.

Mr. Mattinson focuses his practice on employee benefits and matters related to health and welfare plans, health care reform, and qualified retirement plans. He is ranked among the nations’ leading employee benefits and executive compensation lawyers nationwide by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States. Mr. Mattinson counsels privately and publicly held corporations on a variety of benefits issues, including ERISA fiduciary issues, compliance with the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as ERISA administrative claims and appeals. He regularly assists clients in drafting plan documents and amendments and represents clients in matters before the Internal Revenue Service, US Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with respect to plan qualification issues.

Ms. Raaii devotes her practice to issues impacting group health and welfare benefit plans by counseling employers, digital health and point solution clients, plan administrators, insurers, consultants and other health plan service providers. She advises her clients on healthcare reform issues; consumer-driven health benefits; self-funded and fully insured health plans; data privacy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); wellness programs; cafeteria plans; and regulatory, sub-regulatory and legal compliance. Ms. Raaii provides guidance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA); the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); health plan transparency; mental health parity; the No Surprises Act; the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA); flexible benefit plans; health reimbursement accounts (HRAs); health savings accounts (HSAs); plan network design; multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs); association health plans; captive insurance arrangements; and other health benefits issues.