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).
uk â us â GOVERNMENT. âº 1  UK a government organization that makes certain that companies in a particular industry are obeying the law: âº 2  US also government watchdog group, also government watchdog organization a group that watches the activities of a particular part of government in order to report illegal acts or problems: