United States Seventh Circuit

By its express terms, the Medicare Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1395w-4(i)(1)(B), bars judicial review of a challenge to components of the physician fee schedule promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2000
• Decided 01/28/2002
• Published 01/28/2002

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert M. Portman (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant., Stuart M. Gerson, Epstein, Becker & Green, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott R. McIntosh, Sushma Soni (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.