Downcoding

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Downcoding

The alteration by an insurer or other third-party payer of service codes for physicians or other health care providers, to those of lesser complexity, resulting in decreased reimbursement

downcoding

(doun´kō´ding),
n a practice of third-party payers in which the benefits code has been changed to a less complex or lower cost procedure than was reported.

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