How to Use uncompensated in a Sentence

uncompensated

adjective
  • This uncompensated and unrequited largesse set the tone for the king’s time in Alaska.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In the past few years, the hospitals’ total cost of uncompensated care had risen from about $60 million to $84 million.
    Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
  • But the debt to Black Americans for the uncompensated labor of their ancestors was not paid.
    Anne C. Bailey, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The Doctors’ Appeal The doctors did not challenge the number of uncompensated hours the trial court found Liday had worked.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The uncompensated care pool also needs to be addressed.
    Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The Tesla attorneys also argued that Musk, who does not receive a cash salary or bonus, would be uncompensated if the package was thrown out.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The growers’ complaint states a claim for an uncompensated tak- ing in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
    CNN, 23 June 2021
  • Among the most uncompensated victims of racial harm are Black veterans.
    Cornell William Brooks, The Conversation, 19 June 2024
  • Notably, the post did not address the songwriters who continue to go uncompensated by the service due to its disregard for the value of their work.
    David Israelite, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In addition to being among the poorest counties in the country, uncompensated care rates are also among the highest.
    Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • There is no scenario in which Russia gets its money back while its victims go uncompensated.
    Lawrence H. Summers, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
  • Americans of all ages become caretakers, of course, and one in five adults currently provides uncompensated care to a loved one.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • The hospital provided 2,500 days of uncompensated care to patients last year, Sorensen said.
    oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2020
  • How and to whom the debt should be paid for the uncompensated labor of generations of Black people is a difficult question—but surely more is required than taking down old names and putting up new ones.
    Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • State officials said the waiver pays uncompensated care for Texas hospitals and other Medicaid providers at about $3.1 billion each year for the first and second year of the five-year agreement.
    Mike Ward, Houston Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Methodist, like its peers, also gets assistance from the state of Tennessee to help offset its costs for providing uncompensated care.
    Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 27 June 2019
  • The millage rate is a set percentage of property values used to generate tax funds to cover all uncompensated care costs.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The state doubled the size of its Medicaid program, but this failed to reduce the uninsured rate, emergency-room visits or uncompensated care by hospitals.
    Paul R. Lepage, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • One implicit federal subsidy is the post office’s monopoly right to your mailbox, which is to say a monopoly right to this uncompensated use of your time.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This adds an uncompensated layer of bureaucracy to the management of a disease that is already very complex to diagnose and treat.
    Joe Grogan, Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • So far, UCHealth has remained financially stable even with the increase in uncompensated care.
    Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • She’s raised money to start a nonprofit that will support and expand the work of other scientists who are trying to educate the public, whose efforts are often uncompensated and done in their free time.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Some hospitals also saw little to no decrease in uncompensated care, Holmes said.
    Amy Yurkanin, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The hospital provided 2,500 days of uncompensated care to patients last year.
    oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Griffin took pride in looking after the health and well-being of first responders in the community – often uncompensated.
    Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Providers benefited from steady tax revenue, a decline in uncompensated care and strong earnings at their health insurance units.
    Dallas News, 4 June 2021
  • These writers claim that studios are turning their profession into a gig economy consisting of short-term jobs with low pay and even uncompensated work.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
  • But the parties are still negotiating how much of those water savings will go uncompensated.
    Joshua Partlow, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Hospital emergency room staff must treat patients regardless of their ability to pay, and hospitals are left to deal with costs for uncompensated care.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Her jobs inside the prison included uncompensated work stripping floors, helping in the prison’s hospice unit and unloading chemical trucks, according to the complaint.
    Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023

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