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benefits awarded in a post-deprivation hearing. 0DWWKHZVY        WHVWLQJFHUWLILFDWHXQGHUWKH$PHQGPHQWVPD\SHUIRUP
(OGULGJH424 U.S. 319, 330-32, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18        ODERUDWRU\WHVWLQJ86&[V:HVW
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Medicare regulations and claimed that the Fifth Amendment’s        Z
Due Process Clause mandated a hearing before the
cancellation of its Medicare payment eligibility. This court         7KURXJK WKH +HDOWK &DUH )LQDQFLQJ $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ WKH
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entirely collateral and, therefore, turned to the issue of         VDQFWLRQVLQFOXGLQJVXVSHQVLRQRI0HGLFDUHSD\PHQWVRQDQ\
whether the nursing facility made "a colorable claim that full     ODERUDWRU\WKDWGRHVQRWFRPSO\ZLWKWKH$PHQGPHQWV
relief would not be possible if it was awarded retroactive         86&Z
relief through a post-deprivation hearing." Id. at 364.
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requires a pre-termination hearing, the Cathedral Rock court       &)5E:HVW0RUHRYHUWKH6HFUHWDU\
determined that the nursing facility did not state a cognizable    RIIHUV WKH ODERUDWRU\ DQ ³>R@SSRUWXQLW\ WR VXEPLW ZULWWHQ
due process claim. See id. at 365-66 (concluding that the          HYLGHQFH RU RWKHU LQIRUPDWLRQ´ WKDW ZRXOG DUJXH DJDLQVW
nursing facility was not constitutionally entitled to a pre-       FDQFHOODWLRQRILWVDSSURYDOWRUHFHLYH0HGLFDUHSD\PHQWV,G
termination hearing). The Eldridge factors are: (1) "the
private interests that will be affected by the official action";      7KHUHJXODWLRQVIRUWKH$PHQGPHQWVSURYLGHWKDWD
(2) "the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest         ODERUDWRU\GLVVDWLVILHGZLWKDFHUWLILFDWHUHYRFDWLRQGHFLVLRQ
through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any,       PD\DSSHDO6HH&)5DI:HVW
of the additional or substitute procedural safeguards"; and          *HQHUDOO\ VXFK DQ DSSHDO IRUHVWDOOV FHUWLILFDWH
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(3) "the Government’s interest, including the function             GHFLVLRQ E\ DQ $GPLQLVWUDWLYH /DZ -XGJH LV LVVXHG´  
involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the        &)5  GL VHH DOVR  &)5
additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail."      H :HVW   $ UHTXHVW IRU D KHDULQJ
Eldridge, 424 U.S. at 335.                                         KRZHYHUGRHVQRWGHOD\ZLWKGUDZDORIDSSURYDOIRU0HGLFDUH
  Application of the Eldridge factors here reaffirms the           SD\PHQWV&)5E³This sanction may be
soundness of the Cathedral Rock decision: First, although the      imposed before the hearing that may be requested by a
economic impact of canceling Medicare eligibility is               laboratory, in accordance with the appeals procedures set
significant, "a provider’s financial need to be subsidized for     forth in §§ 493.1844."&)5G
the care of its Medicare patients is only incidental to the
purpose and design of the [Medicare] program." Cathedral
Rock, 223 F.3d at 364-65 (quoting Northlake Community
Hosp. v. United States, 654 F.2d 1234, 1242 (7th Cir. 1981))
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MXULVGLFWLRQ                                                      42 U.S.C.A. § 405(h) (West 2002) (incorporated into the
                                                                   Medicare Act pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1395ii). Thus, section
                              ,,,                                 405(h) "‘channels most, if not all, Medicare claims through
                                                                   the special review system’ of an administrative hearing and
  :HUHYLHZGHQRYRWKHGLVWULFWFRXUW¶VGHWHUPLQDWLRQWKDWLW     ‘purports to make exclusive the judicial review method set
ODFNHGVXEMHFWPDWWHUMXULVGLFWLRQRYHUSODLQWLIIV¶FODLP6HH    forth in section 405(g).’" Cathedral Rock of North College
Agrawal v. Paul Revere Life Ins. Co., 205 F.3d 297, 299 (6th       Hill, Inc. v. Shalala, 223 F.3d 354, 358-59 (6th Cir. 2000)
Cir. 2000)                                                        (quoting Shalala v. Illinois Council on Long Term Care, Inc.,
                                                                   529 U.S. 1, 8-9, 120 S.Ct. 1084, 146 L.Ed.2d 1 (2000))
                              $                                   (internal punctuation omitted).
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determination by the Secretary [to cancel its eligibility to       decision to cancel Oakland’s eligibility for Medicare
receive Medicare payments] . . . shall be entitled to a hearing    payments. Thus, absent an applicable exception, section
thereon by the Secretary . . . and to judicial review of the       405(h) precludes the district court from exercising subject
Secretary’s final decision after such hearing as is provided in    matter jurisdiction over their claim.
section 405(g)." 42 U.S.C.A. § 1395cc(h)(1). Section 405(g)
provides: "Any individual, after any final decision of the                                       %
[Secretary] . . . may obtain a review of such decision by a
civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to        Section 405(g)’s exhaustion requirement may be waived
him of notice of such decision or within such further time as      where a plaintiff’s claim is "entirely collateral" to his
the [Secretary] may allow."   86&$  J :HVW      substantive claim of entitlement and he makes a colorable
                                                                   claim that he could not obtain full relief through retroactive
