Maggie Platzer

My Approach

The laws that govern employee benefits, executive compensation, and health care are complex and frequently changing. I help employers 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 committees on plan administration best practices and ERISA fiduciary obligations
• Managing IRS and DOL audits by interfacing with regulators and implementing plan corrections
• Assisting with Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance, including employer shared responsibility rules, eligibility, and controlled group classifications
• Helping self-insuring clients comply with ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, mental health parity and ACA requirements
• Helping client comply with tax rules related to defined contribution health arrangements, including: health savings accounts (HSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs)

Executive Compensation

My experience includes:

• Implementing and amending executive compensation and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, including 457(b) and (f) plans
• Advising clients regarding 409A and ERISA regulations

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

Experience

• Assistant General Counsel and Privacy Officer, Delta Dental of Massachusetts, Inc., Boston, MA (2007 – 2011).
• Law 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).