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Cite as: 529 U. S. 1 (2000)

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Opinion of the Court

Kimball R. Anderson argued the cause for respondent.
With him on the brief were Charles P. Sheets, Bruce R.
Braun, and Brian E. Neuffer.*

Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question before us is one of jurisdiction. An associa-
tion of nursing homes sued, inter alios, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (HHS) and another federal
party (hereinafter Secretary)
in Federal District Court
claiming that certain Medicare-related regulations violated
various statutes and the Constitution. The association in-
voked the court’s federal-question jurisdiction, 28 U. S. C.
§ 1331. The District Court dismissed the suit on the ground
that it lacked jurisdiction.
It believed that a set of special
statutory provisions creates a separate, virtually exclusive,
system of administrative and judicial review for denials of
Medicare claims; and it held that one of those provisions ex-
plicitly barred a § 1331 suit. See 42 U. S. C. § 1395ii (incor-
porating into the Medicare Act 42 U. S. C. § 405(h), which
provides that “[n]o action . . . to recover on any claim” arising
under the Medicare laws shall be “brought under section
1331 .
. of title 28”). The Court of Appeals, however,
reversed.

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We conclude that the statutory provision at issue, § 405(h),
as incorporated by § 1395ii, bars federal-question jurisdiction
here. The association or its members must proceed instead
through the special review channel that the Medicare stat-
utes create. See 42 U. S. C. §§ 1395cc(h), (b)(2)(A), 1395ii;
§§ 405(b), (g), (h).

*Briefs of amici curiae urging afﬁrmance were ﬁled for the American
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging by Mark H. Gallant; for
the American Health Care Association et al. by Thomas C. Fox and Har-
vey M. Tettlebaum; for the American Hospital Association by Charles G.
Curtis, Jr., and Edward J. Green; and for the American Medical Associa-
tion et al. by Paul M. Smith, Robert M. Portman, Michael L. Ile, Leonard
A. Nelson, Richard N. Peterson, Ann E. Allen, Stuart M. Gerson, Saul J.
Morse, and Robert J. Kane.