uncompensated

adjective

un·​com·​pen·​sat·​ed ˌən-ˈkäm-pən-ˌsā-təd 

-ˌpen-

1

: not providing or provided with monetary compensation : not paid or compensated

uncompensated medical care/costs

uncompensated workers

… many thousands of our countrymen devote their rosy prime to the harsh and uncompensated work of writing poetry …

—Marilynne Robinson

2

a

: not corrected or affected by physiological compensation see compensation sense 1b

uncompensated congestive heart failure

b

: accompanied by a change in the pH of the blood

uncompensated acidosis

Examples of uncompensated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As the city's safety net hospital, Denver Health provides health care services to those who can't afford it, including the uninsured, leading to a deficit in its coffers due to uncompensated care. —John Frank, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024

That uncompensated care figure counts the cost to the hospital of charity care and unpaid and underpaid patient bills. —Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2024

In fact, government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, provide more direct subsidies to nonprofit hospitals than these hospitals spend on uncompensated care. —Ge Bai, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Artists suing generative artificial intelligence art generators have cleared a major hurdle in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded from the internet to train AI systems, with a federal judge allowing key claims to move forward. —Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

uncompensated

adjective

un·​com·​pen·​sat·​ed -ˈkäm-pən-ˌsāt-əd, -ˌpen- 

1

: accompanied by a change in the pH of the blood

uncompensated acidosis

uncompensated alkalosis

compare compensated

2

: not corrected or affected by physiological compensation

uncompensated congestive heart failure