Filing · f0044

Healthy Blue + Medicare (HMO-POS D-SNP)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina · Medicare Advantage · NC · Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025

This plan reported a 2.7% standard prior authorization denial rate for 2025, without publishing the underlying counts. The median for Medicare Advantage plans of comparable size is 10.9%. 2 checks flagged this filing.

Standard denial rate
2.7%
This filing published percentages without counts. 86.1% of appealed denials were overturned.
Requests and outcomes
TotalApprovedDeniedDenial rate
Standard 2.7%
Expedited 1.5%

This payer also printed its own standard denial rate: 2.7%. The rate above is computed from the published counts, so the two can be compared.

Appeals of standard denials
Appeals filed
Denials overturned
Overturn rate86.1%

This filing publishes no appeal outcome. CMS-0057-F does not require one.

Turnaround
MeanMedian
Standard2.0 d1.0 d
Expedited24.0 h24.0 h
What the checks found
infoappeals_not_reported

no appeal outcome data published

infopercentages_only

filing publishes percentages without underlying counts; arithmetic cannot be verified