What Else Do I Need to Know? © 2026 Surest. All Rights Reserved . 84 Right to Receive and Release Needed Information Certain facts about health care coverage and services are needed to apply these COB rules and to determine Benefits payable under This Plan and other Plans. We may get the facts we need from, or give them to, other organizations or persons for the purpose of applying these rules and determining Benefits payable under This Plan and other Plans covering the person claiming Benefits. We need not tell, or get the consent of, any person to do this. Each person claiming Benefits under This Plan must give us any facts we need to apply those rules and determine Benefits payable. If you do not provide the information Surest needs to apply these rules and determine the Benefits payable, your claim for Benefits may be denied. Payments Made A payment made under another Plan may include an amount that should have been paid under This Plan. If it does, we may pay that amount to the organization that made the payment. That amount will then be treated as though it were a benefit paid under This Plan. We will not have to pay that amount again. The term "payment made" includes providing benefits in the form of services, in which case "payment made" means reasonable cash value of the benefits provided in the form of services. Does This Plan Have the Right of Recovery? If the amount of the payments we made is more than we should have paid under this COB provision, we may recover the excess from one or more of the persons we have paid or for whom we have paid; or any other person or organization that may be responsible for the benefits or services provided for you. The "amount of the payments made" includes the reasonable cash value of any benefits provided in the form of services. How Are Benefits Paid When This Plan is Secondary to Medicare? If This Plan is secondary to Medicare, then Benefits payable under This Plan will be based on Medicare's reduced benefits. 11.3 Subrogation, Overpayment and Reimbursement Subrogation and Refund A Participant may incur medical expenses due to illness or injuries that may be caused by the act or omission of a Third Party. Also, a Third Party (such as an insurance company) may be responsible for payment on account of the actions of another person or entity. In such circumstances, the Participant may have a claim against the Third Party for payment of medical expenses. Accepting Benefits under the Plan/Surest Plan for those incurred medical expenses automatically assigns to the Plan/Surest Plan any rights the Participant may have to Recoveries from any Third Party up to the full amount of such Benefits. This Subrogation right allows the Plan/Surest Plan to pursue any claim that the Participant has against any Third Party, whether or not the Participant chooses to pursue that claim. The Plan/Surest Plan may make a claim directly against the Third Party, but in any event, the Plan/Surest Plan has an