IN Code § 4-21.5-3-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 4. State Offices and Administration|Article 21.5. Administrative Orders and Procedures|Chapter 3. Adjudicative Proceedings|4-21.5-3-6. Notice Required; Persons Who Must Receive Notice; Contents; Effective Date; Stay, Preliminary Hearing, and Resulting Order

Sec. 6. (a) Notice shall be given under this section concerning the following:(1) A safety order under IC 22-8-1.1.(2) Any order that:(A) imposes a sanction on a person or terminates a legal right, duty, privilege, immunity, or other legal interest of a person;(B) is not described in section 4 or 5 of this chapter or IC 4-21.5-4; and(C) by statute becomes effective without a proceeding under this chapter if there is no request for a review of the order within a specified period after the order is issued or served.(3) A notice of program reimbursement or equivalent determination or other notice regarding a hospital's reimbursement issued by the office of Medicaid policy and planning or by a contractor of the office of Medicaid policy and planning regarding a hospital's year end cost settlement.(4) A determination of audit findings or an equivalent determination by the office of Medicaid policy and planning or by a contractor of the office of Medicaid policy and planning arising from a Medicaid postpayment or concurrent audit of a hospital's Medicaid claims.(5) A license suspension or revocation under:(A) IC 24-4.4-2;(B) IC 24-4.5-3;(C) IC 28-1-29;(D) IC 28-7-5;(E) IC 28-8-4; or(F) IC 28-8-5.(6) An order issued by the secretary or the secretary's designee against providers regulated by the division of aging or the bureau of developmental disabilities services and not licensed by the state department of health under IC 16-27 or IC 16-28.(b) When an agency issues an order described by subsection (a), the agency shall give notice to the following persons:(1) Each person to whom the order is specifically directed.(2) Each person to whom a law requires notice to be given.A person who is entitled to notice under this subsection is not a party to any proceeding resulting from the grant of a petition for review under section 7 of this chapter unless the person is designated as a party in the record of the proceeding.(c) The notice must include the following:(1) A brief description of the order.(2) A brief explanation of the available procedures and the time limit for seeking administrative review of the order under section 7 of this chapter.(3) Any other information required by law.(d) An order described in subsection (a) is effective fifteen (15) days after the order is served, unless a statute other than this article specifies a different date or the agency specifies a later date in its order. This subsection does not preclude an agency from issuing, under IC 4-21.5-4, an emergency or other temporary order concerning the subject of an order described in subsection (a).(e) If a petition for review of an order described in subsection (a) is filed within the period set by section 7 of this chapter and a petition for stay of effectiveness of the order is filed by a party or another person who has a pending petition for intervention in the proceeding, an administrative law judge shall, as soon as practicable, conduct a preliminary hearing to determine whether the order should be stayed in whole or in part. The burden of proof in the preliminary hearing is on the person seeking the stay. The administrative law judge may stay the order in whole or in part. The order concerning the stay may be issued after an order described in subsection (a) becomes effective. The resulting order concerning the stay shall be served on the parties and any person who has a pending petition for intervention in the proceeding. It must include a statement of the facts and law on which it is based.As added by P.L.18-1986, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.35-1987, SEC.5; P.L.42-1995, SEC.2; P.L.80-1998, SEC.1; P.L.35-2010, SEC.1; P.L.153-2011, SEC.1; P.L.186-2015, SEC.1; P.L.35-2016, SEC.1.