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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Restoring Rural Residencies Act of </strong><b>2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services to reimburse medical residency training programs under Medicare for certain graduate medical education&nbsp;costs associated with&nbsp;resident time spent in rural community hospitals known as "critical access hospitals." </p>]]></text>
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