This regulation prohibits ex parte communications between a party and the reviewing or presiding official during informal review proceedings related to opioid treatment program oversight, except for routine administrative or procedural matters or as otherwise specified in related sections. Facility operators must ensure that any substantive communication with the reviewing official is made with notice to the opposing party to preserve procedural fairness.
View official source§ 8.29 Ex parte communications. For the purposes of maintaining the equity of informal review proceedings, except for routine administrative and procedural matters or as described in §§ 8.22(2) and 8.27(e), a party shall not communicate with the reviewing or presiding official without notice to the other party.