Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians

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• holding that Congress did not intend to foreclose judicial review where such a finding would result in respondents being left without any forum to adjudicate statutory and constitutional challenges to agency regulations
• holding that although the Medical Act precluded judicial review of individual benefit determinations, challenges to the Secretary’s instructions and regulations governing those determinations were subject to judicial review
• holding that although the Medicare Act precluded judicial review of individual benefits determinations, challenges to the Secretary’s instructions and regulations governing those determinations were subject to judicial review
• stating that specific statutory language that reliably indicates congressional intent overcomes the presumption in favor of judicial review
• noting that “all agree that Congress cannot bar all remedies for enforcing federal constitutional rights”
• examining Medicare statute which precludes review of benefit “determinations,” but not the “meth od” by which such decisions are made

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