Mary Bartlett, on Behalf of Josephine Neuman v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, and J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Mary Bartlett, plaintiff below, brought suit in the District Court on behalf of her sister, the deceased Josephine Neuman. She challenged the constitutionality of Part A of the Medicare Act on the ground that its partial bar to payment of benefits burdened the free exercise of her sister’s Christian Science faith. The District Court dismissed the complaint for lack *697of subject matter jurisdiction because the claim failed to meet the $1,000 amount in controversy required by the Medicare Act for judicial review…