upcode
English
Etymology
From up- + code.
Verb
upcode (third-person singular simple present upcodes, present participle upcoding, simple past and past participle upcoded)
- (medicine, chiefly US) To change the diagnostic code of a patient's condition from the correct code to one for which a larger amount can be billed.
- 2014 March 28, Peter Parry, “Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder””, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 3, DOI::
- Several factors appear to have fueled the PBD epidemic: […] ; and diagnostic upcoding in the U.S. health system that rations treatment according to DSM diagnoses [ 14 ].
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- To give an improved code or rating to something.
- 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: W.R. up-codes mineral and coal trains”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
- Introduction of more wagons fitted with vacuum brakes and roller-bearing axleboxes has made it possible to up-code trains conveying steel and coal traffic.
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Anagrams
- couped