Chicago
Sarah G. 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.
Sarah 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. She 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.
- Advised Aon plc on health benefits compliance in its $13.4 billion purchase of NFP Corp.
- Counseled pharmacy benefits manager Prime Therapeutics in its $1.35 billion acquisition of Magellan Rx Management
- Represented an employer-sponsored health company regarding health benefits regulatory issues and harmonization in a merger that created one of the nation’s leading providers of advanced primary care and occupational health services for employers
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (2023–2026), Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2026
- Law360, Benefits Editorial Advisory Board, 2025
- Chicago Committee for Minorities in Large Law Firms, associate board
- Chicago Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee, former chair
- American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee of the Section of Taxation
- University of Iowa College of Law, JD, with distinction
- University of Iowa, BBA, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa
- University of Iowa, BS, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa
- Illinois
- Anglais
- Farsi
- Spanish
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