Filing · f0263

Highmark Medicare Advantage contract H3916

Highmark · Medicare Advantage · H3916 · Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025

In 2025 this plan received 463,352 standard prior authorization requests and denied 3.9% of them. The median for Medicare Advantage plans of comparable size is 10.9%.

Standard denial rate
3.9%
463,352 standard requests, 18,072 denied. 77.9% of appealed denials were overturned.
Requests and outcomes
TotalApprovedDeniedDenial rate
Standard 463,352 445,280 18,072 3.9%
Expedited 81,341 74,476 6,865 8.4%
Extended review, approved 38,884

This payer also printed its own standard denial rate: 4.0%. The rate above is computed from the published counts, so the two can be compared.

Appeals of standard denials
Appeals filed1,333
Denials overturned1,039
Overturn rate77.9%
Turnaround
MeanMedian
Standard
Expedited