Floyd Wood v. Tommy G. Thompson, . As Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the Medicare Act is “clear, with clear exceptions, and an argument based only on the rationale supporting the exceptions, absent some constitutional argument, cannot prevail”
• explaining the “substantial evidence” standard demands more than a scintilla of evidentiary support but is less demanding than the preponderance of the evidence standard
• finding the Secretary of Health and Human Services administers the Medicare program through the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which contracts with private contractors to pay hospitals and providers for covered services on behalf of eligible beneficiaries
• “He did not rely on this policy in his arguments before the ALJ or the Medicare Appeals Council, and he has therefore waived this argument.”
• “He did not rely on this policy in his arguments before the ALJ or the Medicare Appeals Council, and he has therefore waived this argument.”
• “All medically necessary procedures are not covered under [Medicare]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).