How to Use outpatient in a Sentence

outpatient

noun

• All outpatient clinics on the UNC campus were closed for the rest of the day.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• The king is being treated as an outpatient, the palace said.
  — Jill Lawless, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2024
• For Williams, the most important factor seems to be the outpatient of it all.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 31 July 2023
• The operation took place the same morning in an outpatient clinic up the street.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
• Toomey, the Children’s executive, said both the sixth and ninth floors are used for outpatient sleep studies.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• According to the source, Bell was getting outpatient help for substance abuse.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• In one video appearing to show an outpatient clinic of Al-Shifa on Friday, a young girl covered in blood shrieks with her hands held up to the sky.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• The girl had just made her fourth attempt and had already gone through an intensive outpatient program.
  — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
• Today, the teen is making progress in outpatient therapy, hoping to return to school and soccer in the coming weeks.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Brian was making calls and doing research, trying to come up with an outpatient plan for Liz.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• For example, Part B pays 80% of the cost for outpatient care and a Medigap policy covers the remaining 20%.
  — Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• After a few weeks, Naomi gained enough weight that she could be discharged into an outpatient program.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The personal account is used to pay for medicines and outpatient costs, while the collective account is used to pay for hospital visits.
  — Laura He, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Eliana spent eight days in the hospital and then was treated as an outpatient at Edwards’ pediatric long Covid clinic.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
• She is known to treat giving birth as an outpatient procedure and leave the hospital perfectly coifed.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• For most, this means spending upwards of 12 hours each week at a free-standing outpatient dialysis clinic.
  — Carrie Arnold, STAT, 5 May 2023
• Patients received lifestyle guidance through the app on top of usual outpatient care, and 68% saw improvement in their disease scores.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 10 Aug. 2023
• This is the first time drugmakers will have to pay the penalties for outpatient drug treatments under the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress last year.
  — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
• The royal source added that the King returned from Sandringham on Monday morning to begin outpatient treatment in London.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• After about three months in the hospital, van den Eijnden received nine months of outpatient treatment.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• Over the next three years, the same process will begin for 50 additional drugs, most of them outpatient drugs but some of them drugs administered by doctors or hospitals.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
• The price decreases will only be seen for patients who access the drugs on Medicare Part B, the government outpatient care coverage.
  — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
• Staffers from at least one outpatient clinic were being redirected to work at hospitals.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• There are no outpatient clinics, so anyone seeking medical care just turns up at the hospital.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
• For outpatient appointments, the medical school bills for the physician fee, while the hospital bills a facility fee.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• As a result of the attack, some elective surgeries, outpatient appointments, blood drives and other services are still postponed.
  — Pat Eaton-Robb, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• These treatments have a relatively short recovery time and can be done in outpatient centers.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 30 June 2023
• The new policy, which the VA will announce Friday, will include up to 30 days of inpatient or crisis residential care and up to 90 days of follow-on outpatient care.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
• Current surgical zippers are self-adhesive and can be used in both in-patient and outpatient cases.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• An inpatient bed, following a week of detox; an outpatient bed for months of subsidized housing; a suite of apprenticeships in the building trades that convert to full-time jobs.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024