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

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Opinion of the Court

vided. No action against the United States, the [Sec-
retary], or any ofﬁcer or employee thereof shall be
brought under section 1331 or 1346 [federal defendant
jurisdiction] of title 28 to recover on any claim arising
under this subchapter.”

(Emphasis added.)

Section 1395ii makes § 405(h) applicable to the Medicare Act
“to the same extent as” it applies to the Social Security Act.

C

The case before us began when the Illinois Council on
Long Term Care, Inc. (Council), an association of about 200
Illinois nursing homes participating in the Medicare (or
Medicaid) program, ﬁled the complaint we have described,
supra, at 7, in Federal District Court.
(Medicaid is not at
issue in this Court.) The District Court, as we have said,
dismissed the complaint for lack of federal-question juris-
diction. No. 96 C 2953 (ND Ill., Mar. 31, 1997), App. to Pet.
for Cert. 13a, 15a.
In doing so, the court relied upon § 405(h)
as interpreted by this Court in Weinberger v. Salﬁ, 422 U. S.
749 (1975), and Heckler v. Ringer, 466 U. S. 602 (1984). App.
to Pet. for Cert. 15a–19a.

The Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal. 143 F. 3d
1072 (CA7 1998).
In its view, a later case, Bowen v. Michi-
gan Academy of Family Physicians, 476 U. S. 667 (1986),
had signiﬁcantly modiﬁed this Court’s earlier case law.
Other Circuits have understood Michigan Academy differ-
ently. See Michigan Assn. of Homes and Servs. for the
Aging v. Shalala, 127 F. 3d 496, 500–501 (CA6 1997); Ameri-
can Academy of Dermatology v. HHS, 118 F. 3d 1495, 1499–
1501 (CA11 1997); St. Francis Medical Center v. Shalala,
32 F. 3d 805, 812–813 (CA3 1994), cert. denied, 514 U. S.
1016 (1995); Farkas v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 24 F. 3d
853, 855–860 (CA6 1994); Abbey v. Sullivan, 978 F. 2d 37,
41–44 (CA2 1992); National Kidney Patients Assn. v. Sulli-
van, 958 F. 2d 1127, 1130–1134 (CADC 1992), cert. denied,