Good Samaritan Medical Center v. Heckler

How courts have described this case

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• court had subject matter jurisdiction over rural hospitals’ constitutional challenge to statute despite Secretary’s contention that hospitals first had to exhaust administrative remedies
• § 1331 jurisdiction exists over rural hospitals’ constitutional challenge to Medicare Act provision authorizing Secretary to calculate separate schedules for reimbursement of Medicare providers according to whether hospital is within or without metropolitan statistical area
• as providers’ involvement in Medicare is voluntary, reduced compensation is not a taking

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).