2025 Lawyers and Administrators Meeting

Breakfast is located outside the meeting room.

Michael D. Scott
Executive Director, NCCMP

Washington policy experts will examine the outlook for government funding, the impact of executive orders and agency actions, and end of year bills as well as what if anything might ride on them focused specifically on issues affecting multiemployer pension and health plans.

Becca Alcorn
Director, Mindset

Kendra Isaacson
Principal, Mindset

Coffee is available outside of the meeting room.

This has been an active year for litigation affecting multiemployer pension funds, with a number of influential court cases including the first multiemployer Supreme Court case in decades. Speakers will discuss recent court cases including Bakery Drivers Loc. 550 v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Yellow Roadways bankruptcy litigation, GE v. Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust, and M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund, and the impacts for all multiemployer plans.

Paul Green
Attorney, Mooney, Green, Saindon, Murphy and Welch

Samuel Levin
Principal, Groom Law Group

• Presentation: Pension Litigation Update

Lunch is available outside of the meeting room.

As the SFA program begins to wind up as the last set of initial applications are due at the end of 2025, technical and policy experts will discuss the status of the SFA program and outlook for plans that remain on the waitlist, the recent changes to the Social Security master death file in relation to SFA applications but also more broadly with the government addition of “ineligible” SSN’s.

Benjamin Ablin
Senior Consulting Actuary, Horizon Actuarial

Michael Irey
Director of Operations, The Berwyn Group

• Presentation: SFA Update - Ablin

• Presentation: Death File Update - Irey

From vaccines to mental health parity, ERISA preemption and PBM reform, multiemployer health plans face a number of new and ongoing challenges. Speakers will discuss recent and pending regulations, as well as recent litigation developments and the impacts for all multiemployer plans.

Elena Lynett
Senior Vice President, Segal

Ryan Temme
Principal, Groom Law Group

• Presentation: Healthcare Legal and Regulatory Update

Coffee and snacks are available outside of the meeting room.

The No Surprises Act was intended to protect patients from unexpectedly high medical bills by banning surprise billing for most emergency services and certain out-of-network care at in-network facilities. The Independent Dispute Resolution process was established to settle payment disputes between healthcare providers and plans for out-of-network services. Recent analysis of government data on the IDR process by data from Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms has found substantially more IDR claims being filed than CMS had predicted, with a staggering number of claims being decided in favor of the healthcare provider for far more than the in-network cost. Speakers will discuss the analysis, work to educate Congress and Federal Agencies, and will arm attendees with questions funds should be asking to determine the extend to which multiemployer funds are similarly affected.

Megan Horn
Vice President and Senior Compliance Consultant, Segal

Katy Spangler
Principal, Spangler Strategies

• Presentation: Surprise Billing and the IDR Process - Horn

• Presentation: Surprise Billing and the IDR Process - Spangler

This time is set aside for issues you would like the group to discuss, but which did not appear on the formal agenda.

Moderator:
Mariah Becker
Director of Research and Education, NCCMP

Michael D. Scott
Executive Director, NCCMP

Michael D. Scott
Executive Director, NCCMP