New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 370 - OVERSIGHT OF LICENSED HEALTHCARE FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY BASED WAIVER PROGRAMS
Part 2 - ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS FOR LICENSED FACILITIES
Section 8.370.2.22 - PREHEARING CONFERENCE

A. Purpose: at the discretion of the hearing officer, upon request of a party or upon the hearing officer's own motion, a prehearing conference shall be scheduled by the hearing officer at a time and place reasonably convenient to all parties, in order to: limit and define issues; discuss possible prehearing disposition; consider possible stipulations of factual or legal issues, or stipulations concerning the admissibility of evidence; limit the testimony or the number of witnesses, the issues or the evidence; and, discuss such other matters as may aid in the simplification of evidence and disposition of the proceedings.

B. Informal: such a conference shall be informal. No offer of settlement made at the conference shall be admissible in evidence at any later hearing. Stipulations and admissions shall be binding and may be used as evidence at the hearing. At the hearing officer's discretion, stipulations and admissions may be made in writing and filed with the hearing officer as part of the official record of the proceedings.

C. Notice: the hearing officer will give notice of the time and place of the pre-hearing conference to the parties by telephone, in person or by mail.

D. Costs: each party shall bear its own costs, including transportation costs.

E. Record: a record of the prehearing conference shall not be kept. A prehearing order or other pleadings may be filed as a result of the prehearing conference.