If the secondary payer pays first, where will the payment appear until the primary payer responds?

• A. undistributed bucket
• B. paid bucket
• C. secondary pool
• D. main bucket

Answer: (B)

When a secondary payer pays before the primary responds, the system marks the payment as received and posted, but it can’t finalize allocation until the primary’s action is known. In Epic’s remittance workflow, this state is shown by placing the payment in the paid bucket. It’s a placeholder indicating “we’ve got this payment, it’s recorded as paid, waiting on primary adjudication.”

The undistributed bucket is for funds that still need to be allocated or matched to a claim, which isn’t the situation here since the payment has already been posted as paid. The other options (secondary pool and main bucket) pertain to different processing paths and wouldn’t accurately reflect a payment that’s been posted but awaiting the primary payer’s response.