Background

Michael Roth is a prominent and respected health care neutral after having practiced as a nationally renowned health lawyer in private practice for several decades.  Mr. Roth has served as the arbitrator, mediator, or hearing officer at over 300 proceedings comprising approximately: (i) 200 arbitrations; (ii) 100 mediations and (iii) 60 peer review fair hearings/appellate review proceedings at hospitals, health plans and other health care settings.  Mr. Roth is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a Fellow of the American Health Law Association (AHLA), former chair of the AHLA Alternative Dispute Resolution Service Council (AHLA-DRS), and a former member of the Health Care Dispute Resolution Advisory Council of the American Arbitration Association (AAA).  Mr. Roth served as the principal drafter of the only ethics code applicable to peer review hearing officers, i.e., The Code of Ethics for Hearing Officers in Peer Review Proceedings, which was adopted by the AHLA in 2013.  Mr. Roth also organized and chaired the first AHLA program focused solely on medical staff law in 1991.  He has written and lectured extensively on numerous health care law topics and alternative dispute resolution for CLE programs and publications of the AHLA, AAA, and various other organizations and publications.

Mr. Roth graduated from Boston College Law School in 1977 and worked in private practice for health law firms in Washington, D.C. on matters related to contracting, medical staff, risk management, certificate of need applications, corporate restructuring and third-party reimbursement.  In 1983 after moving to California and spending two years as an associate in private practice with a boutique health law firm in Pasadena, California, Mr. Roth opened his own health law practice in Los Angeles, and thereupon worked with and represented businesses and providers across the health care spectrum for over 35 years, including: hospitals, home health agencies, subacute providers, physicians, physician groups, health plans, and various other health care practitioners.  The focus of Mr. Roth’s private practice during these many years included: (i) health care transactions and contracting; (ii) statutory and regulatory compliance; (iii) third-party/Medicare reimbursement; (iv) medical staff peer review and quality assurance; (v) counseling clients on operational issues common to both healthcare and non-healthcare businesses; and (vi) dispute resolution on behalf of his clients.

Education

  • Boston College Law School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, J.D. 1977.

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, B.A. 1974.  Magna Cum Laude; National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi; National Political Science Honor Society of Pi Sigma Alpha.

Work History

  • Law Offices of Michael D. Roth LLP, Los Angeles, California 1986 - .

  • McDermott & Trayner, Pasadena, California 1983 – 1986.

  • Memel, Jacobs, Pierno & Gersh – Washington, D.C. 1980 – 1983.

  • Carr, Jordan, Coyne & Savits, Washington, D.C., 1978 – 1980.

  • Hospital Law Manual (published by Aspen Systems Corporation), Legal Writer, 1977 – 1978.