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AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s reversal of a policy that would have eliminated Medicare’s capital indirect medical education (IME) adjustment paid to U.S. teaching hospitals: “We wholeheartedly commend the Obama administration for restoring Medicare’s capital IME adjustment.

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