overutilize

American  

[oh-ver-yoo-tuh-lahyz] / ˌoʊ vərˈyu təˌlaɪz /

verb (used with object)

overutilized, overutilizing

1. to utilize (something) more than is necessary or reasonable, often as to risk harm or depletion.

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Other Word Forms

• overutilization noun

Example Sentences

Malcolm Sparrow, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the author of “License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America’s Healthcare System,” told me, “Under the fee-for-service system, the financial incentives were always to overutilize and overbill, and, if you were a crook, to fabricate claims.”

From The New Yorker

“With people trying to take away opioids now, we are opening up another doorway for people to overutilize other options that can be helpful with the right doctors and the right patients,” he said.

From New York Times

Reducing the value of that tax break would help slow health-care cost growth, because it encourages many employers to pay employees not higher wages but generous “Cadillac benefits,” prompting the recipients, in turn, to overutilize medical care.

From Washington Post

If you don’t have the full repertoire, I guarantee you that you’ll overutilize the limited repertoire you have – including use of models that are inappropriate just because they’re available to you in the limited stock you have in mind.

From Time

Your price gets cut because you overutilize the system because you’re padding yourself.

From Washington Post