Life Care Center v. Secretary of the United States Department of Health & Human Services

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services sanctioned Life Care Center for breaching several regulations while treating Life Care’s nursing-home residents. Life Care now brings a substantial-evidence challenge to the Secretary’s decision. We affirm.

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In 2007, a state agency inspected Life Care’s facility on behalf of the Secretary to evaluate Life Care’s compliance with Medicare regulations governing treatment of its residents. See 42 U.S.C. § 1395i-3(g). The agency determined that Life Care was noncompliant with 13 regulations and that some “deficiencies” placed…