Effective - 28 Aug 2002
190.171. Aggrieved party may seek review by administrative hearing commission. — Any person aggrieved by an official action of the department of health and senior services affecting the licensed status of a person pursuant to the provisions of sections 190.001 to 190.245 and sections 190.525 to 190.537, including the refusal to grant, the grant, the revocation, the suspension, or the failure to renew a license, may seek a determination thereon by the administrative hearing commission pursuant to the provisions of section 621.045, and it shall not be a condition to such determination that the person aggrieved seek a reconsideration, a rehearing, or exhaust any other procedure within the department of health and senior services or the department of social services.
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(L. 1978 S.B. 661, A.L. 1998 S.B. 743, A.L. 2002 S.B. 1107)
(1993) Competing ambulance service lacks standing to contest action of department before administrative hearing commission, because for purposes of statute, "aggrieved person" does not include competing ambulance service that is economically affected by an action of department of health granting an ambulance license to another ambulance service. Gold Cross Ambulance, Inc. v. Missouri Dept. of Health, 866 S.W.2d 473 (Mo. App. W.D.).