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Opinion of the Court

dures authorizing termination of Social Security disability
payments without a pretermination hearing. See 424 U. S.,
at 326–332. Eldridge, however, is a case in which the Court
found that the respondent had followed the special review
procedures set forth in § 405(g), thereby complying with,
rather than disregarding, the strictures of § 405(h). See
id., at 326–327 (holding jurisdiction available only under
§ 405(g)). The Court characterized the constitutional issue
the respondent raised as “collateral” to his claim for bene-
ﬁts, but it did so as a basis for requiring the agency to ex-
cuse, where the agency would not do so on its own, see Salﬁ,
422 U. S., at 766–767, some (but not all) of the procedural
steps set forth in § 405(g). 424 U. S., at 329–332 (identifying
collateral nature of the claim and irreparable injury as rea-
sons to excuse § 405(g)’s exhaustion requirements); see also
Bowen v. City of New York, 476 U. S. 467, 483–485 (1986)
(noting that Eldridge factors are not to be mechanically ap-
plied). The Court nonetheless held that § 405(g) contains
the nonwaivable and nonexcusable requirement that an in-
dividual present a claim to the agency before raising it in
court. See Ringer, supra, at 622; Eldridge, supra, at 329;
Salﬁ, supra, at 763–764. The Council has not done so here,
and thus cannot establish jurisdiction under § 405(g).

The upshot is that without Michigan Academy the Council
Its precedent-based argument must rest pri-

cannot win.
marily upon that case.

IV

The Court of Appeals held that Michigan Academy modi-
ﬁed the Court’s earlier holdings by limiting the scope of
“[§]1395ii and therefore § 405(h)” to “amount determina-
tions.”
143 F. 3d, at 1075–1076. But we do not agree.
Michigan Academy involved a § 1331 suit challenging the
lawfulness of HHS regulations that governed procedures
used to calculate beneﬁts under Medicare Part B—which
Part provides voluntary supplementary medical insurance,
e. g., for doctors’ fees. See 476 U. S., at 674–675; United