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Insurance Terms - Q

  • Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) - (alternative plan for participants who do not make an investment decision in a qualified pension plan)

  • Qualified Long-Term Care (Q-LTC) - (type of long-term care (LTC) insurance that receives advantageous tax treatment provided benefits are required by a chronically ill individual)

  • qualified Medicare beneficiary (QMB) - (a person whose income is below the federal poverty guidelines - for such persons, the state is required to pay the Medicare Part B premiums plus any deductibles or copayments)

  • Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) - (trust instrument that permits the owner of a residence (grantor) to transfer ownership of that residence with the grantor still being allowed to stay in that residence for a stipulated period of time on a tax-advantaged basis)

  • Qualified Plan Insurance Partnership (QPIP) - (type of financial plan that establishes a limited liability company (LLC) whose principal members are an irrevocable trust and a retirement account)

  • qualified pollution exclusion (QPC) -

  • Qualified Retirement Planner (QRP) - (individual, with the educational background, certification, and experience considered qualified to provide professional advice on retirement planning)

  • Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trust (Q TIP) - (estate planning structure that leaves property to a surviving spouse, for their lifetime, and that provides that all income from assets in trust be paid at least annually for the life of the surviving spouse)

  • quality assurance (QA) - (Organizational procedures or practices which ensure that activities meet the prescribed standards regarding supporting documentation and nomenclature)

  • quality control (QC) - (organizational procedures or practices which ensure that the activities services, equipment, and personnel operate within accepted standards)

  • Quality Indicator Profile (QIP) - (report prepared by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which the federal government uses to monitor the level of patient care in federally funded nursing homes)

  • Quality Insurance Congress (QIC) - (organization founded in 1993 with the goal of applying quality management principles to insurance functions - disbanded in 1999)

  • quantitative impact study (QIS) -