the exception of children's and designated cancer hospitals, transitional corridor payments, a critical source of financial support for many major teaching hospitals, still are not fully compensated for by the OPPS program. Major teaching hospitals in particular receive payments that are substantially below their outpatient outpatient corresponding costs. True, "as with the inpatient PPS, the OPPS makes additional payments for outpatient services that are extremely costly ("outliers")." (Scully, 2003, p.4) But the disproportionate reliance on transitional corridor payments by major teaching hospitals demonstrates that the ambulato

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