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Qualified Medical Child Support Orders (QMCSO): Refers to an order for medical child support that establishes the right to an alternate recipient for benefits or assigns an alternate beneficiary under a group insurance plan. The health group recognizes the beneficiary as qualified owing to the requirements laid out by QMCSO provisions.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Refers to a person whose income level is below 100% of the poverty level and for whom the state will pay Medicare Part B deductibles, copayments, and premiums.
Quality Assurance: Refers to the set activities associated with a review for quality of medical services. Quality assurance refers to any actions needed to remedy performance deficiencies pertaining to administrative performance, medical treatment performance, or support services.
Quality Improvement: The process used for identifying products associated with healthcare delivery.