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Absolute assignment
Accelerated benefits
Accidental Death
Accidental death and dismemberment rider
Accidental death benefit rider
Accidental means provision
Accidental result provision
Accreditation
Accumulated cost of insurance
Accumulated value
Accumulation at interest option
Activities of Daily Living
Actual Cash Value
Actuarial department
Actuary
Acute Care
Acute Illness
Additional term insurance option
Adjustable life insurance policy
Adjuster
Admitting Privileges
Adult Care Home
Adult Day Care
Agency bank
Agency system
Agent/Broker
Alzheimer's Disease
Ambulatory Care
American Council of Life Insurance
Annual Statement
Annuity mortality table
Anti-Theft Recovery System
Approval type temporary insurance agreement
Area Agency on Aging
Assessment method
Assets
Assignment
Assisted Living
Assistive Devices
Attained age conversion
Automatic dividend option
Automatic nonforfeiture option
Automatic premium loan
Aviation exclusion



Back-loaded policy
Band grading
Basic death benefit
Basket clause
Beneficiary
Benefit
Benefit of survivorship
Board and Care Home
Bodily Injury Liability Coverage
Branch office distribution system
Broadform Collision Coverage
Bundled insurance product
Business Use
Buyer's Guide



Capitation
Care Plan
Care/Case Management
Caregiver
Case Management
Cash payment option
Cash refund option
Cash surrender value
Cash surrender value option
Cash value
Certificate of indebtedness
Chore Services
Chronic Care
Chronic Illness
Claim
Claim administration department
Clean-up fund
Cognitive Impairment
Co-Insurance
Collision Coverage
Collision Deductible Waiver
Combination company
Combination plan
Commissioners Method
Common disaster clause
Community Health Center
Community-based Services
Commuting
Company retention method
Comprehensive Coverage
Conditional premium receipt
Confirmation certificate
Congregate Housing
Contestable period
Contingent beneficiary
Contingent payee
Continuing Care Retirement Community
Continuously Insured
Continuous-premium whole life insurance
Continuum of Care
Co-Payment
Custodial Care



Death benefit
Death claim
Declarations
Decreasing term insurance
Deductible
Defensive Driver and Driver Improvement Courses
Deinstitutionalization
Dementia
Denial Of Claim
Dependent life insurance
Dependent Worker
Depreciation
Discharge
Discontinuity Index
Disintermediation
Dividend
Durable Medical Equipment



Effective Date
Eligibility requirements
Emergency Road Service
Employee Assistance Programs
Employee's cost basis
Endorsement method
Endorsements
Endowment insurance
Enhancement type policy
Entire contract provision
Equity-based insurance product
Equivalent level annual dividend
Escort Services
Estate Recovery
Exclusions
Exculpatory statute
Extraordinary Medical



Face amount
Facility-of-payment clause
Family benefit
Family income insurance
Family insurance policy
First Party Benefits
Fixed amount option
Fixed period option
Front-loaded policy
Full Coverage
Funeral Benefits



Garaging Location
General account
General agency distribution system
Generally accepted accounting principles
Geriatrician
Geriatrics
Gerontology
Graded-premium whole life insurance
Group creditor life insurance
Group Home
Group ordinary life insurance
Group paid-up insurance
Group permanent life insurance
Group universal life insurance
Guaranteed insurability rider



Health Care Decision Counseling
Health Insurance
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
Health Maintenance Organizations
Home and Community-based Waivers
Home Health Agency
Home Health Aide
Home Health Care
Home Medical Equipment
Home service agents
Home service distribution system
Homemaker Services
Hospice
Hospice Care
Hospital



Income Loss
Incontestable clause
Indemnity
Indemnity Health Plan
Independent Living Facility
Independent Practice Associations
Indeterminate premium life insurance
Indexed life insurance
Industrial insurance
Inpatient
Installment certificate
Installment refund option
Institutional Health Services
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Insurability type temporary insurance agreement
Insurance agent
Insurance Claim Report
Insurance Score
Insured
Insured funding
Interest option
Interest-adjusted cost
Interest-adjusted net cost method
Interest-adjusted payment
Intermediate Care
Intermediate Care Facility
Internal replacement
Investment-sensitive insurance
Irrevocable beneficiary
Issuing bank



Joint and survivorship option
Joint credit life insurance
Joint whole life insurance policy
Juvenile insurance policy

Key-person insurance

Length of Stay
Level of Care
Level premium system
Level premium whole life insurance
Level premiums
Level term insurance
Liability
Liability Coverage
Life income option
Life income option with period certain
Life income option with refund
Life insurance
Limited-payment whole life insurance
Limits
Living benefit rider
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Long-Term Care
Long-Term Care Insurance
Long-Term Care Ombudsman
Long-Term Care Policy



Managed Care
Maximum Dollar Limit
Medicaid
Medical Benefits
Medical Necessity
Medical Payments Coverage
Medically Indigent
Medicare
Medicare Supplement Insurance
Medigap
Medigap Insurance Policies
Misstatement of age provision
Model Life Insurance Solicitation Regulation
Modified-premium whole life insurance
Monthly debit ordinary insurance
Mortality charge
Mortality rate
Motor Vehicle Report
Multiple-line agency system
Mutual benefit method



National Credit File
Neighborhood Health Center
Net amount at risk
Net premium
No-Fault Insurance
No-Fault States
Nonadmitted assets
Nonforfeiture options
Nonforfeiture values
Nonparticipating policy
Non-Passive Alarm
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Nursing Home
Nursing Home Care



Occasional Driver
Occupational Therapy
Older Americans Act
Ombudsman
Open-ended HMOs
Option A plan
Option B plan
Ordinary life insurance
Original age conversion
Out-Of-Plan
Out-Of-Pocket Maximum
Outpatient



Paid-up additions
Participating policy
Passive Alarm
Per capita beneficiary designation
Per stirpes beneficiary designation
Personal Care
Personal Injury Protection
Pleasure Use
Policy Expiration Date
Policy loan
Policy proceeds
Policy Term
Policyowner
Post-acute Care
Pre-Admission Certification
Pre-Admission Review
Preadmission Testing
Pre-existing Condition
Pre-existing Conditions
Preference beneficiary clause
Preferred Provider Organizations
Preferred risk class
Premium
Premium reduction option
Prepayment
Primary Care
Primary Care Provider
Primary Driver
Primary Policyholder
Primary Use
Proceeds
Property Damage Liability Coverage
Prospective Payment
Provider
Public Health
Pure endowment

Quality of Care



Rate making

Rate of return method
Rating classes
Reasonable and Customary Fees
Recording method
Reduced paid-up insurance option
Registered Nurse
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Services
Reimbursement
Reinstatement
Reinstatement provision
Renewal provision
Rental Car Reimbursement
Reserve
Residential Care
Respite Care
Retained asset account
Retired lives reserve
Revocable beneficiary
Right of survivorship
Risk
Risk class



Safety margin
Savings bank life insurance
Second Opinion
Second Surgical Opinion
Secondary Care
Secondary Driver
Segmentation
Senility
Senior Center
Separate account
Service Plan
Settlement option payments
Settlement option table
Settlement options
Short-Term Disability
Skilled Care
Skilled Nursing Care
Skilled Nursing Facility
Small group insurance plan
Social Health Maintenance Organization
Sole proprietorship insurance
Special Care Units
Spend-down
Spendthrift trust clause
Split-dollar insurance plan
Spousal Impoverishment
Spouse and children's insurance rider
SR-22
Standard Nonforfeiture Law
Statutory accounting practices
Steering Restraint
Stock repurchase insurance
Straight life income option
Subacute Care
Successor owner
Suicide clause
Supplemental group life insurance
Supplementary contract
Supplementary contract without life contingencies
Support Groups
Survivor income benefit insurance
Survivorship clause
Survivorship life insurance



Temporary insurance agreements
Term insurance
Testamentary disposition
Third-party endorsement
Title III Services
Title XIX
Title XVIII
Tort
Total-needs programming
Towing Coverage
Traditional net cost method
Transitional Care
Transportation Services
Treatment Plan
Triple-Option



Unbundled insurance product
Uncompensated Care
Underinsured
Underinsured Motorist Bodily Injury Coverage
Underinsured Motorist Property Damage Coverage
Underwriting department
Unilateral contract
Uninsured Motorist Bodily Injury Coverage
Uninsured Motorist Property Damage Coverage
Universal life insurance
Usual, Customary and Reasonable Expenses

Valued contract
Variable life insurance
Variable universal life insurance
VIN
Visiting Nurse Association
Void contract
Waiting Period
War exclusion provision
Whole life insurance
Withdrawal provision