1Designate (a medical procedure or insurance claim) with a lower value.
an insurer who systematically downcodes professional charge submissions for critical care services
no objectwe cannot turn to Medicaid to pay if Medicare downcodes
Example sentencesExamples
So, some of physicians charges for critical care services are automatically downcoded and some are not.
Several lawsuits by providers charge Aetna and other insurers with programming their systems to ‘downcode’ claims, resulting in reduced reimbursement.
2Computing Rewrite or convert (programs or software) into a lower level language.
some of the libraries written into C were downcoded into assembly
Example sentencesExamples
They've downcoded the MP3 from 40kbps to like 24kbps.
Derivatives
downcoding
noun
In the same letter, they pointed out that there is no support for this practice - termed ‘downcoding ‘- in either Oxford's provider manual or New York state law.’
Example sentencesExamples
Downcoding is common among family physicians.
Definition of downcode in US English:
downcode
verbˈdounkōd
[with object]
1Designate (a medical procedure or insurance claim) with a lower value.
an insurer who systematically downcodes professional charge submissions for critical care services
no objectwe cannot turn to Medicaid to pay if Medicare downcodes
Example sentencesExamples
Several lawsuits by providers charge Aetna and other insurers with programming their systems to ‘downcode’ claims, resulting in reduced reimbursement.
So, some of physicians charges for critical care services are automatically downcoded and some are not.
2Computing Rewrite or convert (programs or software) into a lower level language.
some of the libraries written into C were downcoded into assembly
Example sentencesExamples
They've downcoded the MP3 from 40kbps to like 24kbps.