Christopher Condeluci focuses his practice on employee benefits and tax policy, with a specific emphasis on health care reform, retirement and compensation policy. As former Tax Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, Chris actively participated in the health reform debate and he is one of the few senior staffers to join the private sector since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Through his experience on Capitol Hill and the development of this important legislation, Mr. Condeluci helps clients with compliance with the new health care law. He can also advise on shaping any future health care-related legislative initiatives that may affect his clients. Furthermore, Mr. Condeluci has significant technical experience in retirement planning, more specifically tax-qualified retirement plans.
His experience also includes offshore deferred compensation, payroll taxes, education tax incentives (including 529 plans), cafeteria plans and health flexible spending and dependent care arrangements, health savings accounts, fringe benefit programs, and worker classification.
Prior to joining Venable, Mr. Condeluci served as Tax and Benefits Counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, where he represented the Senate Finance Committee in negotiating details of legislative policy changes on matters relating to health care, retirement, executive compensation, education tax incentives, payroll taxes, insurance tax, S Corporations, and other tax policy issues with Senate Leadership; the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means; and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.
Mr. Condeluci has written articles about retiree medical benefits and the defined benefit pension plan funding rules prescribed under the Pension Protection Act of 2006. He is also the co-author of a chapter on fiduciary issues in welfare plans in an ABA-commissioned book entitled ERISA Fiduciary Law and was a significant contributor to the Health Savings Account Answer Book and the ERISA Fiduciary Answer Book - relating health care reform issues. Mr. Condeluci frequently serves as speaker and commentator on a wide variety of health care, employee benefits and tax policy topics.
Government Experience
Tax and Benefits Counsel, United States Senate, Finance Committee
Staff Member, United States House of Representatives, Office of Representative Richard R. Chrysler (R-MI)
News
May 15, 2012, Chris Condeluci quoted in Inside Health Insurance Exchanges on repayment threat in health exchanges
April 17, 2012, Chris Condeluci quoted in Bloomberg on possibility of health exchanges selling government-subsidized coverage
April 16, 2012, Chris Condeluci interviewed by Inside Health Insurance Exchanges on future of health insurance exchanges
January 27, 2012, Brenda Tranchida, Senior Executive at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Joins Venable HealthCare Compliance Group
January 9, 2012, Chris Condeluci quoted extensively in Congressional Quarterly on future health exchanges
November 9, 2011, Chris Condeluci featured in BNA Pensions and Benefits Daily on health benefit issues before Congress
October 27, 2011, Chris Condeluci quoted extensively in BNA Health Insurance Report on health insurance exchanges
September 29, 2011, IAB names Chris Condeluci lead counsel to implement health insurance exchange
September 9, 2011, Chris Condeluci quoted in Politico Pro on ACA language error
August 15, 2011, Chris Condeluci quoted in Politico on new IRS health insurance rule
July 11, 2011, Chris Condeluci quoted in Politico Pro
May 24, 2011, Chris Condeluci quoted in Modern Healthcare article
May 3, 2011, New partner Chris Condeluci's move to Venable highlighted in various publications
April 27, 2011, Former Senate Finance Committee Tax & Benefits Counsel Christopher Condeluci Joins Venable
Publications
April 2012, Legal Issues and the State-Based Exchange - Enhancing Your State's Readiness
Christopher E. Condeluci, Ralph S. Tyler, Katherine Whelan
Client Alerts
December 2011, Health Care Reform: Defining "Essential Health Benefits"
Thora A. Johnson, Christopher E. Condeluci, Jennifer Spiegel Berman, Jessica E. Kuester
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Alert
December 2011, Prepare Summaries of Benefits and Coverage for Group Health Plans
Christopher E. Condeluci
PLC Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
September 29, 2011, Advice to Large Employers on Health Insurance Exchanges: 'Be Aware'
Christopher E. Condeluci
BNA's Pension & Benefits Daily
July 29, 2011, Multiemployer Pension Plans: Unions and Their Retirees, Management, and Policymakers Must Share the Burden
Christopher E. Condeluci
BNA's Pension & Benefits Daily
July 2011, The New Health Insurance Exchanges: Business Opportunities Abound, Don't Be Short-Changed
Christopher E. Condeluci, The Honorable Bart Stupak, Robert A. Burton
Client Alerts
June 2011, Now or Never: The Waiver Program for Annual Limits on Essential Health Benefits is Ending
Christopher E. Condeluci, Gregory J. Ossi
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Alert
June 27, 2011, The Top 5 Tax Changes Under The Healthcare Reform Law
Christopher E. Condeluci
Tax Notes
June 20, 2011, The New Health Exchange: What Will the Success of the Exchanges Mean for Large Employers?
Christopher E. Condeluci
BNA Tax Management Memorandum, Vol. 52, No. 13
Events/Speaking Engagements
Past Events
May 16, 2012, "The Supreme Court and the Health Care Reform Law: Impact on the IRS" at the CERCA Spring Meeting
Christopher E. Condeluci
April 25, 2012 - April 27, 2012, ACG InterGrowth 2012
Charles J. Morton, Jr., Frank M. Gasparo, W. Bryan Rakes, Scott E. Gluck, Samuel Olchyk, Brian S. Masterson, Christopher E. Condeluci, The Honorable Bart Stupak
March 27, 2012, Quality-based Dental Care: An Uncertain Future of Opportunity
Christopher E. Condeluci
March 8, 2012, "Preparing for Exchanges" at the Private Exchanges in the Post-Reform Environment conference for AHIP
Christopher E. Condeluci
February 14, 2012, "How Defined-Contribution Benefit Design Can Help Insurers, Employers and Enrollees" for Atlantic Information Services (AIS)
Christopher E. Condeluci
December 1, 2011, "Health Reform Options: Private Health Exchanges, Health Care Compacts and other Health Reform Options" at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Fall Forum
Christopher E. Condeluci
November 1, 2011, "Insurance Exchanges: How the States are Reacting to and Handling Health Care Reform" at the 22nd Annual National Institute on Health and Welfare Benefit Plans
Christopher E. Condeluci
October 31, 2011, "Federal Legislative Update: What's Been Passed? What's on the Horizon?" at the 22nd Annual National Institute on Health and Welfare Benefit Plans
Christopher E. Condeluci
October 12, 2011, National Journal LIVE/Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Policy Summit
Christopher E. Condeluci
September 27, 2011, "Navigating the Current Regulatory Environment - Health Care Reform" at the Financial Executives Institute, Washington Policy Conference
Christopher E. Condeluci
September 21, 2011, "Summaries of Benefits and Coverage under Health Care Reform: Your Guide to the New Requirements" for Practical Law Company
Christopher E. Condeluci
June 22, 2011, "The Nuts and Bolts of the Exchange - A Brief Summary" at the DC Bar Healthcare Section CLE Luncheon
Christopher E. Condeluci
May 19, 2011, "The New Health Exchange: What Will the Success of the Exchanges Mean for Large Employers?" BNA Tax Management Advisory Board Meeting
Christopher E. Condeluci