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Health Care Arbitration Training

Schedule

This training is designed to be highly interactive, encouraging participants to fully engage throughout the training. Attendees will take part in group exercises and discussions.

Monday, May 18, 2026

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

Welcome and Introductions

11:25 AM - 12:25 PM

1. Arbitration Process and Agreement to Arbitrate

  • Key Steps
  • Legal Overlay
  • Tailoring the process to specific situations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

2. Process for Selecting an Arbitrator | Arbitrator Ethics and Disclosures

  • Options and Processes for Arbitrator Selection
  • Communications between Parties and Arbitrators
  • Arbitrator disclosures
  • Codes of Arbitrator ethics
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Group Exercise on Ethics

  • Handout with ethics-based scenarios for analysis and group discussion
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

3. Arbitrator Authority and Responsibilities

  • Scope of Arbitrator authority
  • Jurisdiction determinations
  • Role of Arbitrator
  • AHLA rules that support the Arbitrator in making a determination
  • Managed arbitrations

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

11:00 AM - 12:10 PM

4. Pre-Hearing Process

  • The Rule 5.4 Status Conference
  • Procedural issues
  • Substantive issues
  • Fact Discovery
  • Expert Witnesses Disclosures and Discovery
  • Non-Party Subpoenas
  • Motion Practice
  • The Scheduling Order
12:10 PM - 12:15 PM

Break

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

5. Managing Electronically Stored Documents in Arbitration

  • Basic terms and concepts
  • Distinctive features
  • Establishing ground rules for the production of ESI
  • Sampling
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch Break

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Group Exercise on Arbitrator Authority and Preliminary Hearings

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

6. Overcoming Unconscious Bias in Decision-Making

  • What is unconscious bias
  • What causes bias
  • Best practices for deciding fairly

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

7. Arbitration Hearings

  • Pre-hearing submissions
  • Opening and closing arguments
  • Evidence: ground rules and guidelines
  • Managing time and emotions
  • Closing and reopening the hearing
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Group Exercise on Arbitration Hearings

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch Break

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

8. AHLA Rules and Procedures

  • Serving as an AHLA neutral
    • Joining the roster
    • Positioning yourself for success
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Understanding AHLA's rules of procedure for arbitration
  • Managing challenging situations
    • Pro se (unrepresented) parties
    • Uncooperative parties or unruly behavior
    • Sanctions in arbitration
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

9. Awards and Orders

  • Interim Orders
  • Partial Final Awards
  • Form / framework of awards
  • AHLA rules on awards
  • Drafting of awards
  • Corrections

Thursday, May 21, 2026

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Group Exercise on Awards and Orders

  • Analysis and group discussion of drafting an award based on a hypothetical set of facts
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

10. Post-Hearing Issues

  • Confirmation of the award
  • Vacating an award
  • Application of state law
  • Application of Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)
  • Limitations of review and manifest of disregard of the law
  • Appellate consideration
1:15 PM

Final Remarks and Conclusion

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