Germantown Hospital and Medical Center; Hearing [36 Pa.B. 1456] Appeal of Germantown Hospital and Medical Center under the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act (40 P. S. §§ 1303.101--1303.910); Doc. No. MM06-02-036 On or before March 16, 2006, the appellant shall file a concise statement setting forth the factual and/or legal basis for the disagreement with MCARE's January 20, 2006, determination. The statement may be in narrative form or in numbered paragraphs, but in either event shall not exceed two pages. A prehearing telephone conference initiated by this office is scheduled for April 6, 2006. Each party shall provide a telephone number to be used for the telephone conference to the Hearings Administrator on or before April 3, 2006. A hearing shall occur on April 25, 2006, in Room 200, Administrative Hearings Office, Capitol Associates Building, 901 North Seventh Street, Harrisburg, PA.
On or before April 17, 2006, each party shall file with the Administrative Hearings Office a prehearing statement which shall contain: (1) a comprehensive statement of undisputed facts to be stipulated between the parties; (2) a statement of additional contended facts; (3) names and address of witnesses along with the specialties of experts to be called; (4) a list of documents to be used at the hearing; (5) special evidentiary or other legal issues; and (6) the estimated time for that party's case. Contemporaneously with service of the prehearing statement on the opposing party, each party shall supply the other with a copy of any report generated by an expert witness designated on the prehearing statement. Any report subsequently received from a party's expert witness prior to hearing shall be supplied to the other party within 2 business days. Copies of expert reports need not be filed with the Administrative Hearings Office.
Motions preliminary to those at hearing, protests, petitions to intervene or notices of intervention, if any, must be filed on or before March 23, 2006, with the Hearings Administrator, Administrative Hearings Office, Capitol Associates Building, Room 200, 901 North Seventh Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Answer to petitions to intervene, if any, shall be filed on or before March 30, 2006.
M. DIANE KOKEN,
Insurance Commissioner[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-497. Filed for public inspection March 24, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
