If you have Medicare and other health insurance or coverage, each type of coverage is called a payer.. When there's more than one payer,  coordination of benefits  rules decide which one pays first. The primary payer pays what it owes on your bills first, and then sends the rest to the secondary payer to pay.
Shadow government may refer to: 1  A government run by an unelected bureaucracy, also known as a deep state or state within a state. 2  A conspiracy theory of a secret government, see Shadow government (conspiracy).
The term shadow banking is sometimes used to refer to. the funding of loans through securities markets instead of banksâor to the funding of banks. through securities markets instead of deposits. Other times, shadow banking is used to refer to. financial activity that is ineligible for a government backstop.