Opinion by
Judge LICHTENSTEIN.
In this workers compensation proceeding against King Soopers (employer), Robert Ortega (claimant) seeks review of a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) affirming the ALJs denial and dismissal of his claim for benefits based on an alleged industrial injury. Claimant challenges the ALJs denial of a continuance and exclusion of his untimely-submitted medical reports. In particular, he challenges the ALJs interpretation of the twenty-day rule under section 8-483-210, C.R.8.2008. We affirm.
At the September 18, 2007 administrative hearing, claimants attorney informed the ALJ that his client faxed him a personal physician report one week prior to the hearing. The report, dated August 24, 2007, indicated claimants injury was work-related. Claimant requested a continuance, asserting the need to determine the basis of the physicians opinion and also asserting employer had untimely provided medical reports to him. Claimant noted this was his first request for a continuance.
Employer objected, stating a continuance was not necessary for claimants personal physician to expand on his medical report. Employer offered to assent to the admission of claimants untimely medical report if claimant assented to the admission of employers late reports. Before learning claimants position on this offer, the ALJ denied a continuance.
At the hearing, claimant objected to employers untimely submissions. Consequently, employer objected to claimants untimely disclosure of two medical reports, one dated June 22, 2007 and the other dated August 24, 2007. The ALJ exeluded both parties untimely-submitted medical reports, concluding, [Section 8-48-210] says documents are not admitted unless exchanged more than 20 days ahead of time, and theres no exception to that rule.
After the hearing, the ALJ denied benefits to claimant, finding that he did not prove his injury was a result of employment with employer.
Claimant appealed the ALJs order to the Panel. He asserted the ALJ abused his discretion by denying claimant a continuance of the administrative hearing, and violated claimants due process rights by excluding claimants medical reports after denying the continuance. The Panel affirmed the ALJs order. Claimant raises these same contentions on appeal.
I.
We disagree with claimants first contention that the ALJ abused his discretion by denying the continuance.
Section 8-48-207(1)(J), C.R.S.2008, authorizes an ALJ to adjourn a hearing to a later date for the taking of additional evidence for good cause shown. Dee Enters. v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 89 P.3d 430, 440 (Colo.App.2003). Under section 8-43-207(1), C.R.S.2008, the ALJ is vested with wide discretion in the conduct of evidentiary proceedings. IPMC Transp. Co. v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 753 P.2d 803, 804-05 (Colo.App.1988) (citing predecessor statute); see § 8-43-209(3), C.R.S.2008 (once hearing commences, ALJ may, for good cause shown, continue the hearing ... to take additional testimony [or] to file an additional medical report). An abuse of discretion occurs when the ALJs order is beyond the bounds of reason, as where it is unsupported by the evidence or contrary to law. Heinicke v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 197 P.3d 220, 222 (Colo.App.2008).
We perceive no abuse of discretion in the ALJs denial of the continuance because the ALJs order is supported by the record and applicable law. The record shows that elaim-ant did not request a continuance until the day of the hearing, even though almost four months elapsed between the time he filed an application for hearing and the date of the hearing. The record also contains a June 22, 2007 report from the same physician that indicates that claimants condition was work-related, suggesting that the information provided by claimant to counsel just prior to the September hearing was not new. Claimants attorney provided no explanation why he did not timely provide the June report to employer, or discover the basis for the physi-clans June opinion before the September hearing date.
Moreover, just before the ALJs ruling, employer offered to agree to the admission of claimants late-submitted June and August medical reports. Employer also represented that it had brought an expert witness for the hearing, and was ready to proceed.
On this record, we discern no abuse of discretion in the ALJs implicit finding that claimant failed to establish good cause for the continuance. See Voisinet v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 757 P.2d 171, 173 (Colo.App.1988) (in ruling on request for a continuance, hearing officer must weigh the nature of the proceedings, the timeliness of the request, the reasons justifying the continuance, and the prejudicial or disruptive effect which might be caused by the requested continuance).
We also disagree with claimant that the absence of factual findings in the ALJs order denying the continuance prevent adequate appellate review. See, e.g., Dee Enters., 89 P.3d at 441 (rejecting contention that Panel improperly inferred good cause, and holding that the totality of the cireumstances [was] more than sufficient to provide the good cause necessary for the ALJs order); People in Interest of A.E.V., 782 P.2d 858, 860 (Colo.App.1989)(the record amply justifies the implicit conclusion of the court that good cause existed).
IL.
Claimant also contends that the ALJs exclusion of the August 24 medical report, combined with the denial of a continuance, deprived him of due process because he was prevented from presenting evidence of the medical opinion that the injury was work-related and the basis for this opinion.
In particular, claimant asserts the ALJ incorrectly interpreted the twenty-day rule in section 8-43-210 of the Workers Compensation Act (Act) to mandate exelusion of the August 24 medical report, with no exceptions. We agree with the Panel that the ALJ misinterpreted the statute. However, we conclude, as did the Panel, that on this record the ALJs error combined with the denial of a continuance does not warrant reversal.
A.
Statutory interpretation is a question of law that we review de novo. Colo. Dept of Labor & Employment v. Esser, 30 P.3d 189, 194 (Colo.2001). We interpret a statute in order to give effect to the intent of the General Assembly whenever possible. Id. at 195. To effectuate legislative intent, we first look to the plain and ordinary meaning of the words the General Assembly has chosen to utilize. Id. The Workers Compensation Act should be construed to give consistent, harmonious, and sensible effect to all its parts. Sigala v. Atencios Mkt., 184 P.3d 40, 46 (Colo.2008).
The twenty-day rule in section 8-43-210 of the Act requires that [a/ll relevant medical records, vocational reports, expert witness reports, and employer records shall be exchanged with all other parties at least twenty days prior to the hearing date. (Emphasis added.) While the plain language of this provision mandates a twenty-day rule for the exchange of the enumerated records and reports, the Act must be read to give consistent, harmonious, and sensible effect to all its parts. Sigala, 184 P.3d at 46. The immediately preceding provision of the Act states,
Onee the hearing is commenced, the administrative law judge may, for good cause shown, continue the hearing to a date certain to take additional testimony, to file an additional medical report, to file the tran-seript of a deposition, or to file a position statement. Exeept upon the agreement of all parties or for good cause shown, a continuance to complete a hearing shall not exceed thirty calendar days.
§ 8-48-209(8) (emphasis added).
Given the contemporaneous amendment of both sections 8-48-210 (adding the twenty-day rule) and 8-48-209(8) (allowing continuances for good cause to file additional medical reports), see ch. 341, sees. 4-5, 2007 Colo. Sess. Laws 1473-74, and reading these provisions harmoniously, we agree with the Panel that the ALJs strict reading of the twenty-day rule was unwarranted. Execep-tions to the twenty-day rule are clearly contemplated by the allowance of continuances to file additional reports in appropriate circumstances. See Sigala, 184 P.3d at 46.
However, like the Panel, we conclude that the ALJs strict interpretation of the twenty-day rule does not, on this record, necessitate a different result. Claimant provided no explanation for his untimely exchange of the June medical report or his failure to discover the basis for the physicians June opinion prior to the September hearing date. Claimant also had the opportunity to admit the June and August medical reports as part of employers proposed agreement to refrain from objecting to all the untimely reports. Claimant elected to insist upon the exclusion of employers late medical report even if that decision resulted in the exelusion of his own late medical reports. Thus, on this record, the good cause exception to the twenty-day rule was not met.
B.
Claimant contends that the ALJs exclusion of the medical reports, combined with the denial of a continuance, violated his due process rights. Under the circumstances here, we are not persuaded.
The requirements of procedural due process apply to a deprivation of a liberty or property interest. Carlson v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 950 P.2d 663, 665-66 (Colo.App.1997). Under the Act, a claimant possesses a property interest in receiving workers compensation benefits. Kroupa v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 53 P.3d 1192, 1195 (Colo.App.2002). In administrative adjudications turning on questions of fact, due process requires that parties be afforded a reasonable opportunity to confront adverse witnesses and to present evidence and argument in support of their positions. Hendricks v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, 809 P.2d 1076, 1077 (Colo.App.1990). Due process is a flexible standard that calls for no specific procedure as long as the basic opportunity for a hearing and judicial review is present. Kroupa, 58 P.3d at 1195.
Here, claimant had nearly four months to obtain medical reports favorable to his position that his injury was work-related, and was able to obtain such evidence as early as June 2007. Although claimant did not timely disclose this evidence, employer made a proposal which would have permitted claimant to present it. Despite the ALJs initial exclusion of claimants evidence in a prehear-ing ruling, he ultimately permitted claimant to cross-examine employers physician, and confront this witness with evidence of his personal physicians report, including his physicians opinion that the injury was work-related.
We conclude, on this record, that no due process violation occurred. Here, claimant was provided with reasonable alternatives to present favorable evidence, and he ultimately presented this evidence to the ALJ during cross-examination of employers physician. See City of Boulder v. Dinsmore, 902 P.2d 925, 927 (Colo.App.1995) (in evaluating claim of denial of due process, reviewing court may balance several factors, including substitute procedural safeguards).
C.
Claimant, in his brief, lists other issues relating to the propriety of the ALJs factual findings and evidentiary rulings. We are precluded from addressing these issues because they were not raised to the Panel below. See Brown v. Muto, 943 P.2d 38, 41 (Colo.App.1996) (an appellate court may not consider an issue that was not first raised before the Panel).
The order is affirmed.
Judge RICHMAN and Judge RULAND concur.