Karen Bailey

Karen Bailey serves as Empyrean’s Compliance Officer, focusing on ensuring all Empyrean solutions and services comply fully with the legal landscape governing health and welfare benefits. Karen’s responsibilities include HIPAA privacy and security matters, contract matters, and providing general legal and overall compliance support to Empyrean’s teams and clients. She also provides consulting services to Empyrean clients regarding health and welfare compliance matters.

Karen joined Empyrean in 2012 with over a decade of experience managing regulations surrounding health and welfare benefits. Her previous experience includes serving as General Counsel/ERISA attorney for Hewitt Associates, where she managed legal outsourcing delivery for defined contributions, defined benefits, and health and welfare practice areas. Karen also served as Health and Welfare Requirements Consultant at Hewitt and Health and Welfare Domain Manager at Aon Hewitt.

Karen holds a Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award for Research Analysis, and Writing. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.