Robert Falk is a healthcare attorney with 15 years of private practice experiences at prominent national law firms and over a decade in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining Truth Initiative, Falk served for 11 years as the general counsel and corporate secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. He has advised both the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on legal issues including election and campaign finance law, nonprofit tax issues, real estate, human resource matters, and intellectual property. Before the Human Rights Campaign, he served as general counsel of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, an HIV/AIDS social service agency, and as acting general counsel at D.C. General Hospital. He is a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign’s Ally of Justice award. Falk is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.
In today’s environment, incentives that inspire and engage employees in healthy behaviors are more important than ever. And one proven method to motivate people to quit smoking is a tobacco use surcharge. A tobacco surcharge (sometimes referred to as a “nonsmoker discount”) imposes a higher insurance premium on tobacco users. […]
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When it comes to healthy behaviors, employers want to do the right thing—for themselves and their employees. That includes helping employees quit smoking by offering an incentive to do so. Quit-smoking incentives—also called tobacco surcharges or nonsmoker discounts—are typically based on affidavits that employers collect during open enrollment. If an […]
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