42 C.F.R. § 405.1843 Parties to Board hearing.
Title 42 - Public Health
(a) The parties to the Board hearing shall be the provider, the intermediary (including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services when acting directly as intermediary) that rendered the determination being appealed (see §405.1833), and any other entity found by the intermediary to be a related organization of such provider. (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a), neither the Secretary nor the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be made a party to the hearing. However, the Board may call as a witness any employee or officer of the Department of Health and Human Services having personal knowledge of the facts and the issues in controversy in a hearing pending before the Board and may call as a consultant to the Board in connection with any such hearing any individual designated by the Secretary for such purpose. (See §405.1863.)
Title 42: Public Health
PART 405—FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED
Subpart R—Provider Reimbursement Determinations and Appeals
§ 405.1843 Parties to Board hearing.
