Filing · f0222

Wellpoint Iowa

Elevance Health · Medicaid Managed Care · IA · CY2025

This plan reported a 4.4% standard prior authorization denial rate for 2025, without publishing the underlying counts. The median for Medicaid Managed Care plans of comparable size is 13.2%. 2 checks flagged this filing.

Standard denial rate
4.4%
This filing published percentages without counts. 41.6% of appealed denials were overturned.
Requests and outcomes
TotalApprovedDeniedDenial rate
Standard 4.4%
Expedited 12.8%

This payer also printed its own standard denial rate: 4.4%. The rate above is computed from the published counts, so the two can be compared.

Appeals of standard denials
Appeals filed
Denials overturned
Overturn rate41.6%

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