COB Coordination
Medicare COB
Order of benefits (Non-Medicare)
OI Types
COB Random
100

Do not coordinate. State plans are specifically excluded, as they are the payer of last resort.

What is Medicaid?

100

Hearing aids are never covered.

What is UMR would process as primary?

100

Active employee has coverage on spouse's employer plan.

What is plan that covers person as an employee will be primary?

100

Medicare claim billed on a HCFA.

What is OI type C?
100

You received COB BLX edit. The primary EOB can be found here.

What is Webclaims or OnBase?

200

Accident only plan (including athletic injuries)-Do not coordinate.

What is School Insurance?

200

Under 20 lives who pays primary.

What is Medicare?

200

Plan follows birthday rule.

What is the primary plan will be the parent's whose birthday occurs earliest in the year?

200

Medicare claim billed on a UB.

What is OI type B?

200

Both claims have a discount applied (primary and UMR) & the UMR discount is greater.

What is apply the difference between the two discounts?

300

Traditional Group Health Plans

What is UMR does coordinate?

300

Active employee's spouse who has Medicare due to age.

What is plan pays primary?

300
Adult dependent has own employee insurance coverage but also on parent's insurance plan.

What is employee's own plan is always primary?

300

Commercial insurance where primary carrier applied a discount.

What is OI type X?

300

Clam has internal COB. The first step before processing when a member has coverage under two UMR plan is.

What is determine OI values are valid?

400

Coordination of benefits (COB) is the process of determining which health insurance company pays first for covered medical expenses. BLANK is the primary payer for most covered medical expenses for people aged 65 and older, people with certain disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

What is Medicare?

400

Active employee who has Medicare due to disabiltiy(not ESRD), plan is over 100 lives.

What is plan pays primary?

400

Spouse has employer sponsered insurance and covered by spouse's UMR plan.

What is UMR will be secondary to dependent spouse employer insurance?

400

Used when estimating Medicare's amount.

What is OI type M?

400

To determine which other insurance(OI) amounts to enter into the OI eligible and OI paid amounts: what information is needed to calculate the primary carrier's allowed amount from an EOB.

What is total billed amount and discount?

500

Tricare U.S. Military coverage.

What is UMR does not coordinate?

500

Member level OI value is blank and Medicare EOB has been received.

What is update family OI by determining order of benefits with Medicare?

500

When a member has coverage under two UMR plan, what is the first step in processing a claim?

What is determine OI values are valid?

500

Medicaid claim.

What is OI type G?

500

On an EOB, what does CO indicate?

What is Contractual Obligations?