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Recent Examples of underpayment
When Medicaid underpayment isn’t addressed, costs shift to employers and families through higher premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
In each case, every positive percentage shows the degree of underpayment that women receive on the whole.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
In each case, every positive percentage shows the degree of underpayment that women receive on the whole.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underpayment
nonpayment
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At one point, a hotel where Abundant Blessings clients were staying threatened to evict them over nonpayment, forcing LAHSA to pay directly for the rooms, despite already having shelled out to Soofer to rent them.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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But a year later, two months before Americano was set to open, the restaurant’s liquor license got held up over nonpayment of taxes from the by-then shuttered restaurants in Highland park, Wrigleyville and River North.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Underpayment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underpayment. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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