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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Graduate Medical Education Equity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow a qualified hospital to have its payment amount for direct graduation medical education costs calculated on the basis of its Medicaid inpatient utilization rate rather than on the basis of its Medicare patient load.</p>]]></text>
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