Section 17-311-27 - Designation of parties(a) In issuing the notice of hearing, the commissioner will designate as parties any persons known to the commissioner whose legal rights, duties, or privileges are being determined in the contested case and any person whose participation as a party is then deemed by the commissioner to be necessary to the proper disposition of such proceeding subject to such person complying with 4-177a G.S.(b) Subsequent to the issuance of the notice of hearing, no other person before the commissioner other than the petitioner and, in self-pay rate hearings, the self-pay patients affected by the self-pay rate determination at issue shall have standing as a party within the definition of 4-166 (8) G.S. except upon the express order of the commissioner.(c) The commissioner will designate all self-pay patients or, in the case of incompetent self-pay patients, their guardians or conservators as parties of record, because self-pay rate hearings involve what rates self-pay patients pay to their nursing homes.(d) At the commencement of a self-pay rate hearing, the nursing home shall submit for the record a written list of the names and addresses of all of its present and past self-pay patients and their guardians or conservators who are affected by the self-pay rate years which are the subject of such hearing. Failure of the nursing home to submit such written list shall constitute cause for a default of the facility at the self-pay rate hearing. The commissioner or his designated hearing officer or presiding officer shall have the discretion not to default a facility which inadvertently made a minor or technical error in its list and is willing to correct such minor or technical error if possible. Conn. Agencies Regs. § 17-311-27