NEW! AAA 2022 HEALTHCARE PAYOR PROVIDER ARBITRATION RULES AND
MEDIATION PROCEDURES

The amended AAA Healthcare Payor Provider Rules and Mediation Procedures, effective October 1, 2022, represents a two-year endeavor by the AAA healthcare advisory council, an internal AAA working group.

The amended rules standardize important longstanding AAA practices—confidentiality, consideration of consolidation/joinder motions, and civility—as well as revise rules to further promote efficiency, reflect advances in technology, and include where appropriate discussions regarding cybersecurity.

Summary of Significant Arbitration Rule Amendments
New Rules

  • Consolidation: AAA’s first-ever healthcare payor provider rule for the consolidation of existing arbitrations or the joinder of additional parties
  • Confidentiality: Captures the long-standing requirements of the Code of Ethics for Arbitrators by including a commitment to the confidentiality of arbitration in the Rules
  • Conduct of parties and their representatives: Specifically incorporates into the Rules the AAA’s expectations of civility and professionalism of all participants in arbitrations
  • Providing arbitrators with the authority to interpret awards: Draws upon the recently adopted ICDR article that allows the arbitrator to explain the award on a party’s motion
  • The importance of cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection: Reflects the weight that the AAA places on cybersecurity and recommends that data protection be discussed in the preliminary hearing
Additional significant amendments to the arbitration rules include:

  • Expanded preliminary hearing rule to include a meet and confer
  • Expanding arbitral authority to determine the method of proceedings
    (Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, certain Rules now give the arbitrator the express authority to compel the use of video or electronic means for some or all of the hearing.)
  • Strengthening limitations on motion practice and discovery in the Expedited Procedures

To view the AAA® Healthcare Payor Provider Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures, amended and effective October 1, 2022, click here.

Featured Panelists


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Catharine Biggs Arrowood
Parker Poe
North Carolina
United States

Hugh J. Bell, Jr.
Henning Mediation &
Arbitration Services, Inc.
Georgia
United States

Raymond G. Bender
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator
Washington D.C.
United States

Marc Borello 
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator 
Roquefort les Pins 
France


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Thomas Brewer
Independent Arbitrator
Washington
United States

Gerry F. Doyle
Doyle & Bachman
Washington D.C.
United States

John J. Fitzpatrick
Independent Arbitrator
California
United States

Allen B. Green
Dentons
Washington D.C.
United States


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Hon. Faith S. Hochberg
Judge Hochberg ADR
New York
United States

Kathryn J. Humphrey
Dykema
Michigan
United States

Paul Klaas
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator
Minneapolis
United States

Steve Koh
Perkins Coie
Washington
United States


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Sharon L. Larkin
Larkin Ferrell
Washington D.C.
United States

Pamela Meredith
Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger
Washington D.C.
United States

Elliot Polebaum
Independent Arbitrator
Washington D.C.
United States

Kara M. Sacilotto
Wiley Rein
Washington D.C.
United States


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Lawrence Schaner
Schaner Dispute Resolution
Illinois
United States

Lester Schiefelbein
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator
California
United States

Milton “Skip” Smith
Sherman & Howard
Colorado
United States

Stephen Smith
Independent Arbitrator
Colorado
United States


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Edna Sussman
Sussman ADR
New York
United States

Wolf von Kumberg
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator
London
United Kingdom

Kellye L. Walker
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Virginia
United States

Richard Ziegler
Jenner & Block
New York
United States



For more information, please contact either vice president below or fill out the form above.                                                                                   
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Steve K. Andersen, Esq.

Vice President, ICDR
Los Angeles, CA
+1.213.271.9915  |  [email protected]

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Andrew Barton

Vice President, AAA
San Antonio, TX
+1.210.998.5750  |  [email protected]