Susan Nash is a partner in the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn, LLP specializing in the area of health care reform and health and welfare benefits. She assists employers and health plans with their health care reform strategy and compliance with laws affecting group health plans, such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the CARES Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and the Internal Revenue Code.  

Susan has extensive experience advising clients on innovative employee health benefit strategies and funding, including employer direct contracting with providers, population health management, value-based design care, health care transparency, on-site clinics, direct primary care, telehealth, private health care exchanges, VEBAs, and association health plans. She has counseled a wide variety of employers and health plans on HIPAA’s privacy, security, and nondiscrimination requirements. Susan has also represented clients in negotiations and audits with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services. She regularly negotiates administrative services agreements, pharmacy benefit management agreements and agreements with point solution vendors for health and welfare plans.  

Susan is recognized by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits and the Legal 500 U.S. as a leading employee benefits attorney. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. She is a frequent speaker on employee health benefit issues and has written extensively on these topics as well. Susan graduated from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 1991 and received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.