Definition of downcode in English:

transitive verb

• 1Designate (a medical procedure or insurance claim) with a lower value.

  ‘an insurer who systematically downcodes professional charge submissions for critical care services’

  no object ‘we cannot turn to Medicaid to pay if Medicare downcodes’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They've downcoded the MP3 from 40kbps to like 24kbps.’