(a) A provider must send to the department a written request for an administrative hearing within 15 days after receiving the department's official notice of adverse action. The request for an administrative hearing:
  (1) may be in the form of a petition or a letter;
  (2) must state the reasons the provider considers it is not subject to the adverse action; and
  (3) must be addressed to: Hearings Office, TXMHMR, P.O. Box 12668, Austin, Texas 78911-2668.
(b) After the department receives the written request for an administrative hearing, the matter shall be referred to an administrative law judge for disposition according to Chapter 403, Subchapter O of this title (relating to Administrative Hearings of the Department in Contested Cases).

Source Note: The provisions of this §9.34 adopted to be effective June 13, 1995, 20 TexReg 3987; transferred effective September 1, 2004, as published in the Texas Register September 10, 2004, 29 TexReg 8841