(v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
(v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
(v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
(v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
(n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".
(2) In 1952-61 44 cases of lung cancer were reported in conjunction with radioactive substances, in 1962-85 already 1511 patients were recompensated.
(3) Coagulation-analysis control of the development shows clearly that shock treatment and maintenance of adequate circulation, starting at the earliest possible moment at the scene of the accident, are important for spontaneous recompensation of the hemostatic defect.
(4) Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to be essential for survival in the community; 2) the majority of patients who relapse after drug withdrawal recompensate fairly rapidly upon reinstitution of antipsychotic drug therapy; 3) placebo survivors seem to function as well as drug survivors--thus the benefit of maintenance drug therapy appears to be prevention of relapse; and 4) some cases of early relapse after drug withdrawal may be due to dyskinesia rather than psychotic decompensation.
(5) Doctors were happy with the deal, seeing a pay freeze as adequate recompense for the government backing away from patient choice.
(6) Preliminary loop cutaneous ureterostomy diversion allowed adequate ureteral recompensation such that ureteral tapering was unnecessary in any of these cases.
(7) The international community agreed to examine options for a mechanism for poor countries to seek recompense.
(8) Whichever way the matter is eventually settled, Johnson feels those involved in the England 2018 campaign are in effect fraud victims and should be recompensed for what has proved a considerable waste of time and money, effort and energy.
(9) It’s not just recompense for Benn’s historic defeat, but one better.
(10) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
(11) A spokesman for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS foundation trust said: “During the same period, NHS activity at the trust has increased by 25%; but this has been insufficiently funded under the current NHS tariff system, which is widely recognised as not recompensing highly complex work.
(12) It was agreed that the Obama administration would pay Tehran $1.7bn to recompense Iran for an aborted arms deal drawn up before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
(13) Recompensation, possibly through the use of another person as a transitional object, was noted during the illness.
(14) While this principle – that victims can seek recompense from those who have harmed them — is central to the law of most countries, it remains a politically contentious topic in the international context of climate change.
(15) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
(16) This paper discusses the application of basic theories of family functioning to understanding the syndrome consisting of abnormal-illness behaviour centred around a recompensable illness or injury.
(17) A report is given on a patient with ischaemic heart disease, whose recompensation in tachyarrhythmia absoluta was for some times possible only by means of unusually high doses of digitoxin (fully effective dose to 5.72 mg, maintenance dose to 0.4 mg).
(18) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
(19) The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine , pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.
(20) "Good conduct" showed a slight decrease as the challenging character of recompense grew smaller, but was still above the initial level.
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.