The U.S. Department of Labor's building in Washington. Photo: Mike Scarcella/ALM
The administration of President Donald Trump may be closer to getting a leader for a key federal employee benefits agency.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has included Daniel Aronowitz, Trump's nominee to be the assistant secretary of Labor in charge for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, on a list of nominees to be reviewed at a hearing scheduled for June 5.
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Aronowitz is a labor lawyer and labor law blogger. Until April, he was the president of Encore, a company that sells fiduciary liability insurance and other forms of liability insurance to employee benefit plans.
Earlier in his career, he was president of Ullico Casualty Company.
In 2011, he donated one of his kidneys to his mother-in-law.
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If Aronowitz is confirmed as the administrator of EBSA, he will be in charge of developing and implementing regulations affecting employer-sponsored health plans and employer-sponsored retirement plans.
He could work with officials from the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to update rules for individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements and other health accounts, and he would help the Trump administration what to do about rescinding or changing new mental health parity "non-quantitative treatment limits" regulations.
The Trump administration has paused implementation of the parity regulations, which affect plan provisions such as how easily patients who need mental health care can get inpatient care and how mental health care providers are paid, but the administration has not announced plans to rescind or replace the regulations.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
