§ 26.1-17-34 — Hearing procedure and judicial review

1. Any health service corporation aggrieved by any order or decision of the commissioner
made without a hearing, within thirty days after notice of the order to the corporation,
may make written request to the commissioner for a hearing thereon. The
commissioner shall hear the party within twenty days after receipt of the request and
shall give not less than ten days' written notice of the time and place of the hearing.
Within fifteen days after the hearing, the commissioner shall affirm, reverse, or modify
the previous action specifying the reasons therefor. Pending a hearing and decision
thereon, the commissioner may suspend or postpone the effective date of the previous
action.
2. This chapter does not require the observance at any hearing of formal rules of
pleading or evidence.