See: External Quality Review Organization (EQRO) .
Tag: MEDICAL
Equitable assignment
Type of written notice or act that does not fully meet the requirements of a legal assignment but is valid and enforced by the courts in the interest of fairness and justice.
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UK: Assignment that does not give the assignee the right to sue in his own name. No particular form is necessary, not even writing, e.g. insured hands his life policy over to the bank as security for a loan. The assignee should notify the insurer as there may be successive assignees. Insurers in doubt as to the entitlement to the policy proceeds can pay the money into court under the Life Assurance Companies (Payment into Court) Act 1896.
Equity pension
Retirement fund that provides benefits that vary depending on the investments in the portfolio. It is meant to provide retirees with benefits that increase as inflation rises.
Equity-based insurance
Life insurance in which the cash value and benefit level change according to how the investments in the portfolio perform. Equity investments (corporate stock) are those in which investors gain part ownership in a corporation.
Equivalency review
Process that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) employs to compare an accreditation organization’s standards, processes, and enforcement activities to the comparable CMS requirements, processes, and enforcement activities.
Equivalent single payment
One payment that stands for several payments because it is equal to the value of the other payments.
Equivocal suicide
Type of suicide in which there is doubt as to whether it was intentional or not.