(v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
(v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would cost, say, £15 a call to defray lost fees, and the number could only be used once.
(2) The BBC must also make sure that any project spending that benefits partners must be defrayed equally to ensure there is no breach of state aid rules.
(3) As the final cherry on the cake, the cost of upgrading the route to take 140mph expresses could be defrayed from the extra profits the express operators would make.
(4) This packet also included a letter requesting a donation to BRPC to help defray operational expenses.
(5) They can then be taxed to help defray some of the costs.
(6) In an effort to attract critical care staff to hospitals and defray education costs, many hospitals are asking educators to market critical care programming to the nursing community.
(7) The cost of health care, particularly medical specialty care, was defrayed in large part by private insurance and public programs, such as Medicaid and Title V Programs for children with special health care needs, while financial support for related services, such as physical therapy and speech therapy, came largely through the schools.
(8) The program is designed to help defray the cost that an Arizona student faces in attending an out-of-state medical school by paying, in the student's behalf, the difference between the resident and nonresident tuition at the out-of-state school.
(9) With this money, the dean can defray the direct as well as the indirect costs of the clinical study; the remainder, which would otherwise go directly to the investigator, should be placed in a funding pool for which the entire medical school could compete.
(10) Society already bears a large part of the costs attributable to the lack of adequate health expense protection for the uninsured, whether through lost manhours and productivity resulting from the postponement of needed medical attention or through defraying the economic burden of uncompensated care.
(11) But funds from Bosch’s settlement are expected to defray VW’s compensation costs.
(12) Priority concerns for cancer control in hereditary breast cancer are the development of registries of cancer-prone families, willingness by third-party carriers to help defray the costs of surveillance, and more research in molecular genetics.
(13) We need cost-benefit research to induce third party carriers to defray expenses for surveillance.
Reimburse
Definition:
(v. t.) To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.
(v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.
(2) A study was undertaken to determine the magnitude of the charges and costs and the sources of reimbursements for the care of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) patients in an urban setting, Orleans Parish (County), Louisiana, in 1971.
(3) Understanding the full effects of the change in health care delivery reimbursement on patient care and nursing care will require research and investigation.
(4) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
(5) We believe that new physician reimbursement codes specific for geriatric assessment should be established in the Current Procedural Technology (CPT-4) manual and that reimbursement for GA should be specifically provided under Part B of Medicare.
(6) Many state Medicaid programs limit the number of reimbursable medications that a patient can receive.
(7) Concomitant with this changing mix of ownerships, revised reimbursement plans are being proposed for psychiatry.
(8) One group relied primarily on increased third-party reimbursements to offset the end of basic federal grants.
(9) The new method will significantly affect global, technical, and professional reimbursement.
(10) The central reimbursement method used in Medicare risk contracting (adjusted average per capita cost) does not adequately control for enrollment selection, unmet medical need, or recent regional cost variations.
(11) Even more worrisome to these institutions is the possibility of other third-party payors following Medicare's lead and converting to this reimbursement plan.
(12) Fraser discusses the results and implications of a survey conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the impact on hospices of the Medicare reimbursement program authorized by Congress in 1983.
(13) Physicians not only need better preparation to meet the challenges of caring for frail older patients, but they also need changes in reimbursement policies so that they can afford to spend the time needed to manage the complexities inherent in the doctor-patient-family caregiver relationship.
(14) To determine the prevalence of off-label anticancer drug use (ie, using drugs to treat conditions other than those listed on the Food and Drug Administration's approved drug label), the extent of reimbursement denials for these uses, and the effect of denials on the treatment of cancer patients.
(15) In France 15% of prescriptions include at least 1 benzodiazepine and 5 compounds of this class appear among the 30 most frequently prescribed of state reimbursed medications.
(16) The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of health insurance coverage research universities offer their employees and the extent to which these employers offer options providing for reimbursement of services of independent nurse practitioners.
(17) Methods of reimbursement to validate autopsy as a medical act should be sought, and voluntary and government regulation to assure the role of autopsy in quality assurance programs is suggested.
(18) We found that the program could account for reimbursement of 51.8% of its budget through patient care services, requiring 5.2% to be subsidized through state grants and 43.1% through federal graduate medical education reimbursement.
(19) Cost estimates for diagnostic evaluation were calculated by means of the schedule of prevailing rates for Texas employed by the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services for physician reimbursement.
(20) Total hospital costs (exclusive of Diagnostic Related Group reimbursement.