Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski

Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, 599 U.S. 166 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case related to private enforcement of Spending Clause statutes.

Gorgi Talevski had dementia and his family placed him in a nursing home operated by the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC).

Talevski asserted he could enforce the FNHRA, which specifies conditions for facilities to receive federal Medicaid funding, against HHC, because it confers federal rights that Section 1983 provides a venue to vindicate; the Supreme Court has generally upheld that private citizens can sue under Section 1983, including for Medicare programs, if the government had deprived them of "any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws" as recently as Edelman v. Jordan (1974).

HHC filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asserting a conflict with cases like Gonzaga University v. Doe and Blessing v.

Amici briefs on in support of HHC were submitted by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Healthcare Association.