upholding state statute forbidding doctors to bill Medicare patients for fees beyond those reimbursed by Medicare against challenge based on theory that doctors might find Medicare "reasonable" charge unreasonably low, thereby refusing to treat Medicare patients
How later courts described this case
- upholding state statute forbidding doctors to bill Medicare patients for fees beyond those reimbursed by Medicare against challenge based on theory that doctors might find Medicare "reasonable" charge unreasonably low, thereby refusing to treat Medicare patients
- decisions of Atomic Energy Commission and Public Health Service not to warn miners of radiation hazards and not to regulate the safety and health of miners were discretionary
- while medical decisions may not be within the discretionary function exception, decisions based on political policy fall within the exception
- when the same words are used in different sections of the same law, they will be given the same meaning
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The opinion
This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.