A pilot project has been underway for the counties in the western region of the state (i.e., 17 local social services districts west of Syracuse) involving fair hearing requests scheduled against the following agencies:
• the Office of Health Insurance Programs (OHIP--formerly OMM, referred to as OHSM on the Fair Hearing Information System),
• the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMEU),
• the Department of Health's Traumatic Brain Injury Waivered Services Program (DOH1), and
• all Managed Care Organizations (MCOs).
These hearing will be removed from the regular hearing calendars to provide more flexibility in scheduling, with the hope of improving the show rate and reducing issuance times.
Many transactions including scheduling, adjourning, and rescheduling fair hearing, will be handled off line by Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Katherine Volk.
Fair hearings involving these agencies will continue to be scheduled at the customary local district sites but will be scheduled on dates other than regularly scheduled calendars.
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