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title: "Antidote Health Plan of Arizona appeal form and deadline"
url: "https://denialfacts.com/insurers/antidote-health-plan-of-arizona-inc--az"
publisher: "Axion Labs — Denial Facts"
checked: "2026-11-04"
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# Antidote Health Plan of Arizona denied your claim. Here is your deadline.

Denied by Antidote Health Plan of Arizona? Your two appeal deadlines dated from your notice, a free letter, and its 9.5% denial rate.

## Figures

| Figure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| In-network denial rate | 9.5% |
| Claims denied | 140 |
| Plans in Arizona | 28 |
| Internal appeals filed | 0 |
| Internal overturn rate | not reported |
| In-network claims received | 1,466 |
| External reviews filed | 0 |
| External overturn rate | not reported |
| National denial rate | 15.7% |

## External-review route

**State-run process.** Arizona runs its own external review process meeting the federal standards, so an independent review there is handled through the state program rather than the federal one. This route is the one for insured plans, Marketplace, individual, and employer plans where an insurance company carries the risk. If your coverage is through a job and the employer pays the claims itself (a self-funded or self-insured plan, which is 63% of covered workers), the state process does not apply to you whatever your state operates, and your external review goes through the federal process instead. Your denial letter names your route; if it does not, ask your plan in writing whether the plan is self-funded.

## Antidote Health Plan of Arizona in Arizona, at the top of the page

Arizona

Your two dates, free

Date on your denial notice

Who pays your claims?

A job, an insurance company pays the claims

A job, my employer pays the claims itself (self-funded)

A job, I do not know which

Marketplace / individual plan I bought myself

Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA or IHS

Which state?

The reason your letter gives

I'm not sure, I'll paste the sentence later

Not medically necessary
Provider out of network
Service excluded from the plan
Experimental or investigational
Referral required
Benefit limit reached
Member not covered
Administrative reason
Other reasons

Show my two dates, free

Put in the date on your Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. notice and get both federal deadlines as calendar dates.

Free, for an Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denial in Arizona, and it runs entirely in your browser. The date, the plan type and the state you pick are never sent to us and never stored.

Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denied 140 of 1,466 in-network claims in Arizona; every one of those denials had these same two dates on it. Across Arizona as a whole the insurers in this file denied 16.1% of in-network claims, 1,449,189 of them, and 11,145 were appealed.

Or let the [$29 Appeal Kit](/appeal-kit) date each step and write the claim-file and external-review requests.

Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denied 9.5% of in-network claims in Arizona, 140 claims out of 1,466.

By [Axion Labs](/about) · August 19, 2026, updated November 4, 2026

Further down this page, after the free steps: the paid next step .

Insurance got denied, what to do next?

We hear this most. [r/HealthInsurance, thread title](https://www.reddit.com/r/HealthInsurance/comments/1rdxwvi/insurance_got_denied_what_to_do_next/) , read September 3, 2026.

The number nobody else publishes. Not one of the 140 denials Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. issued in Arizona reached the independent review its own staff do not decide, an explicit zero in this insurer's own filed row, not an absence. The stage was there the whole time and it binds the plan. Nationally 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) of the reviews that got there were overturned.

Those 140 denials are 0% of every in-network denial recorded in Arizona in this release, which makes Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. the 6th largest source of denials of the 6 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 28 plans in the state that is about 5 denials per plan. 0 internal appeals were filed against those 140 denials. Every one of those denials carried the same two dates the tool at the top of this page works out.

The clock your letter has to describe, in actual dates

Two dates matter more than anything else on this page, and they run the same in Arizona as everywhere else. You have 180 days from the date on your denial notice to file the internal appeal, and then 4 months from the final internal denial to ask for an independent external review. If waiting would seriously jeopardize your health you can ask for both to be expedited, decided in about 72 hours . Both timeframes are federal, not your insurer's choice, [29 CFR 2560.503-1](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-2560.503-1) ( [PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title29-vol9/pdf/CFR-2024-title29-vol9-sec2560-503-1.pdf) ) and [45 CFR 147.136](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-147.136) ( [PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title45-vol2/pdf/CFR-2024-title45-vol2-sec147-136.pdf) ), in plain English at [HealthCare.gov](https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision/internal-appeals/) , and your own denial letter states the ones that govern your plan. The PDFs are the same sections on govinfo.gov, which serves them without a challenge page, so an automated reader can check these two dates as easily as you can.

Data verified November 4, 2026 · CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain

You are not alone, and here is the measured version of that sentence: 140 in-network claims were denied by Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in Arizona in a single plan year. A denial rate is a fact about an insurer's book of business. It is not a judgment about you, and it is not the last word on your claim.

- Of the 6 insurers reporting a denial rate in Arizona, Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. is the sixth highest at 9.5%. The highest in the state is 50.1% and the lowest is 9.5%.

- That is 6.2 percentage points below the 15.7% national average across this dataset, and 6.6 points below the Arizona average of 16.1%.

- Behind the percentage: 1,466 in-network claims were processed under 28 plans in Arizona, and 140 of them came back denied.

- For every 10,000 claims Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denied, about 0 came back as an internal appeal. The other 10,000 stopped at the letter.

- Not one of those denials reached independent external review, the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept, and where nationally 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) are overturned.

- Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. accounts for 0% of every in-network claim denied in Arizona in this file.

- By raw volume it is the 135th largest source of denials among the 135 insurer-state records in the file that report one.

- Read the other way round: 1,326 of those 1,466 in-network claims were paid, 90.5% of everything Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. processed in Arizona.

- Spread across the 28 plans it reports in Arizona, that is about 5 denied claims per plan, on about 52 claims processed per plan.

- Against the file as a whole, this one record is 0% of the 83,907,852 in-network claim denials reported by every issuer in it.

What to do tonight

- Find the reason code on your denial letter. The federal file records no denial-reason breakdown for Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in Arizona, so this page cannot tell you which of the 9 categories yours will be, your letter can, and it has to. Copy the exact wording and the code off it tonight: that sentence is what your appeal has to answer.

- Ask Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in Arizona for the clinical criteria they judged you against. Under [29 CFR 2560.503-1](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-2560.503-1) they have to hand you the claim file and the policy they applied, free, on request, and you cannot argue with a checklist you have never read.

- Put both deadlines on your calendar before you go to bed. 180 days from the date on the letter for the internal appeal, 4 months from the final internal denial for external review. The free calculator on this page turns your date into the two calendar dates in about ten seconds. 140 claims were denied here in a single year and not one was escalated; the deadline is what decides whether anyone reads the argument.

None of those three steps costs anything. Anyone charging you to do them is selling you something you can do yourself in twenty minutes.

9.5%

In-network denial rate

140

Claims denied

28

Plans in Arizona

0

Internal appeals filed

not reported

Internal overturn rate

## How that compares

| Denial rate | Rate | Difference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. | 9.5% | , |
| Arizona average | 16.1% | -6.6 pts |
| National average (this dataset) | 15.7% | -6.2 pts |

Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. sits at or below the national average across this dataset. A denial rate is a property of the insurer's book of business, coding practice, plan design, the population it covers, not evidence about the merits of any one claim, including yours.

## What happened to appeals

| Stage | Filed | Overturned |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internal appeal (to Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.) | 0 | not reported |
| External review (independent) | 0 | not reported |

Read that again: Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denied 140 claims in Arizona, and not one went to independent external review. External review is free to you and the insurer must follow the decision.

## The gap nobody escalated

140 claims denied. 0 internal appeals filed. None reached independent external review. Nationally 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) of external reviews are overturned and the decision binds the plan.

That is arithmetic from the reported figures, not a prediction: nobody can say what those specific denials would have done at review, because they never got there. What the numbers do establish is that the binding stage was almost entirely unused here.

What that record means for your own Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. letter, and by when. Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. recorded 140 denials in Arizona and no separately reported appeal outcome, so this page cannot tell you how its Arizona appeals went, the Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. rows in the plan-year 2027 release of the CMS Transparency in Coverage file, read November 4, 2026 ( [data.healthcare.gov](https://data.healthcare.gov/) ). Whichever way that lands, nobody files the appeal for you, and the filing runs on a clock set by which plan you hold: an employer or Marketplace plan gives you at least 180 days from the denial notice to file the internal appeal ( [29 CFR 2560.503-1(h)(3)(i)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title29-vol9/pdf/CFR-2024-title29-vol9-sec2560-503-1.pdf) , carried onto individual-market coverage by [45 CFR 147.136(b)(3)(i)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title45-vol2/pdf/CFR-2024-title45-vol2-sec147-136.pdf) ), while Medicare Advantage gives you 65 calendar days from the date of its notice ( [CMS](https://www.cms.gov/medicare/appeals-grievances/managed-care/reconsideration-advantage-health-plan-part-c) , [42 CFR 422.582(b)](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-422.582) ) and Medicaid managed care 60 calendar days from the date on the notice ( [42 CFR 438.402(c)(2)(ii)](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-438.402) ), both stages free, and the three steps above are the whole of what to do tonight, so take the date printed on your Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. notice and file well inside whichever of those windows is yours. The free steps are above; the [$29 kit](/appeal-kit) is the same clock with the letters pre-filled for Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in Arizona. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

## Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. inside Arizona

Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 6 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.

- Across the whole of Arizona, the 7 insurers reporting in this file processed 8,988,391 in-network claims and denied 1,449,189 of them, a state denial rate of 16.1%. Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. is one of those 7.

- That puts Arizona 16th of 29 states by denial rate, 0.4 points above the 15.7% national average, before you get to what Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. did inside it.

- Arizona recorded 11,145 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 130 claims the state's insurers refused.

- Independent external review was reached 294 times in the whole of Arizona, once for every 4,929 denials, against one in 17,061 nationally. None of them came from Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.'s denials.

- Of the Arizona external reviews that were filed, 61 were overturned, 20.7%. That percentage is measured on 294 reviews, which is why the count beside it matters more than the rate does when you are deciding whether to file against Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc..

- The reason Arizona's insurers record most often is [other reasons](/denial-reasons/other) , 653,458 claims, 33.9% of the state's categorized denials.

- The other insurers an Arizona reader could have bought from run from 50.1% ( [Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc.](/insurers/imperial-insurance-companies-inc--az) ) to 10.9% ( [Health Net of Arizona, Inc.](/insurers/health-net-of-arizona-inc--az) ). Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. at 9.5% sits below all of them.

- Put the two together and Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. is responsible for 0% of every in-network claim denied in Arizona in this release, from 0% of the claims the state's insurers processed.

- Every Arizona figure in this section is that state's own row in the same federal file Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.'s numbers above come from, [CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain](https://data.healthcare.gov/) , and the full Arizona page is free at [/states/arizona](/states/arizona) .

Work out your two deadlines

Put the date from your notice in and get the two calendar dates, with the days remaining.

Date on your denial notice

Which denial is this?

First denial (I have not appealed yet)

Final internal denial (my appeal was refused)

Show my deadlines

Runs entirely in your browser, the date you type is never sent to us and never stored. [Open the full calculator →](/appeal-deadline-calculator)

Or let the [$29 Appeal Kit](/appeal-kit) date each step and write the claim-file and external-review requests.

The three steps at the top of this page are the whole of what you have to do tonight. The longer
version, what the internal appeal has to contain, how the independent stage works, and how to ask
for expedited handling when waiting would seriously jeopardize your health, is
[published free here](/how-to-appeal) .

## Questions

##### Is Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.'s denial rate in Arizona high?

9.5% against a national average of 15.7% across the plans in this dataset. It is at or below average. A denial rate describes the insurer, not the merits of your claim.

##### How many people appealed an Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denial in Arizona, and how many won?

0 internal appeals were filed against 140 denials, and the overturn rate was not separately reported. Not one went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision is binding on the plan.

##### How does Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. compare with other insurers in Arizona?

Of the 6 insurers in Arizona with a reported denial rate, Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. ranks 6 highest at 9.5%. The highest in Arizona is Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc. at 50.1%; the lowest is Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. at 9.5%.

##### What does Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. deny most often in Arizona?

No denial-reason breakdown was reported for Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in Arizona. The reason Arizona's insurers recorded most often is other reasons, 653,458 claims, and that is the state's mix, not this company's.

##### How long do I have to appeal an Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denial in Arizona?

Generally 180 days from the date on the denial notice to file the internal appeal, then generally four months from the final internal denial to request independent external review. Expedited review, decided in about 72 hours, is available where delay would seriously jeopardize your health. Those timeframes are federal, so they are identical for every insurer reporting in Arizona, Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. included, what varies by state is who runs the independent review at the end. Your own denial letter states the deadlines that govern your plan; that letter is the authority.

##### Does appealing an Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denial in Arizona cost anything?

The internal appeal to Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. is free. External review is free under the HHS-administered federal process; where an issuer uses a contracted independent review organization or a state process, any fee is capped at $25 per review. Nobody in Arizona can be charged more than that to file one.

##### Can Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. ignore an external review decision in Arizona?

No, and that is the whole point of the stage. External review decisions are binding on the plan by law, which is what makes the zero external reviews recorded against 140 Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. denials in Arizona the striking number on this page.

The line on this page we would read twice is the one that says not one of Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.'s 140 denials in Arizona reached independent review. We are not going to tell you that you will win. This page prints the insurer's own reported numbers whichever way they fall. If what it says does not match the letter in your hand, write to us and we will correct the page.

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Where these numbers come from The Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. figures on this page, the 9.5% denial rate, the 140 denials and the 0 external reviews, are this issuer’s own reported rows in that file.

Counts: [CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain](https://data.healthcare.gov/) . Rights and timeframes: [29 CFR 2560.503-1](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-2560.503-1) (180 days, and your free right to the claim file) and [45 CFR 147.136](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-147.136) (4 months, and what qualifies), explained at [HealthCare.gov](https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision/external-review/) . Expedited review is decided in about 72 hours under both sections.

Reading either regulation from a script rather than a browser: eCFR answers automated fetches with a challenge page, so the same two sections are mirrored as government PDFs at [govinfo.gov (29 CFR 2560.503-1)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title29-vol9/pdf/CFR-2024-title29-vol9-sec2560-503-1.pdf) and [govinfo.gov (45 CFR 147.136)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title45-vol2/pdf/CFR-2024-title45-vol2-sec147-136.pdf) .

This page presents federal statistics and a general description of appeal rights created by federal law. It is not legal, medical, or insurance advice, and no outcome is guaranteed. Your denial letter and plan documents govern your specific case. Free help is available from your state's Consumer Assistance Program and from the federal Marketplace at HealthCare.gov.

Problem solved: You have both dates for your Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. notice, you know that Arizona runs the external review itself, and you have the letter, free, on this screen, tonight.

## The pages that answer the next question

- [Every insurer reporting in Arizona](/states/arizona) , the state's own row, the 7 companies filing there, and the Arizona insurance department's consumer number, read at source.

- [Antidote Health Plan of Ohio in Ohio](/insurers/antidote-health-plan-of-ohio--oh) , 12.6% of in-network claims denied, 5,966 of them, the neighboring record in this file.

- [Aspirus Health Plan, Inc. in Wisconsin](/insurers/aspirus-health-plan-inc--wi) , 15.4% of in-network claims denied, 57,728 of them, the neighboring record in this file.

- [Avera Health Plans, Inc. in Iowa](/insurers/avera-health-plans-inc--ia) , the neighboring record in this file; CMS reported no usable denial count for it.

- [If your employer pays the claims itself](/self-funded-denial) , then Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. is only administering the plan, your state's external review has no power over the denial, and the route is federal. It is the first question our own calculator asks. 7 insurers report in Arizona; whether your plan is one of theirs at all is what that page settles.

- [If it was refused before the treatment](/prior-authorization-denied) , a prior-authorization refusal from Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. runs on the same two federal clocks as a denied claim, and it can be appealed while the treatment is still ahead of you. 1,449,189 in-network claims were denied in Arizona in this release; a refusal before the treatment is not counted among them and is appealed the same way.

- [Before you pay a lawyer](/before-you-call-a-lawyer) , two free appeals run before anyone bills you by the hour, and Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. has to hand you the claim file for nothing under 29 CFR 2560.503-1. Free help in Arizona starts with the state consumer line printed on that state's page.

- [All 152 insurer-state records](/insurers) , the whole table, ranked, with Antidote Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. in it and the 7 that file in Arizona beside it.

Your dates are ready. [Write the letter, free](/appeal-letter)

## The two federal clocks

The clock your letter has to describe, in actual dates Whatever else is on the page, these two dates are the page. You have 180 days from the date on your denial notice to file the internal appeal, and then 4 months from the final internal denial to ask for an independent external review. If waiting would seriously jeopardize your health you can ask for both to be expedited, decided in about 72 hours . Both timeframes are federal, not your insurer's choice, 29 CFR 2560.503-1 ( PDF ) and 45 CFR 147.136 ( PDF ), in plain English at HealthCare.gov , and your own denial letter states the ones that govern your plan. The PDFs are the same sections on govinfo.gov, which serves them without a challenge page, so an automated reader can check these two dates as easily as you can.

## How rare the second appeal is

You are not alone, measured rather than said: 83,907,852 in-network claims were denied in a single plan year, and only 4,918 of them, one in 17,061, ever reached the independent review stage. Of the ones that did, 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) were overturned.

## What is free here, and what the one paid thing costs

Denied a claim? Insurers upheld 165,863 of the 262,982 internal appeals counted in 2024, 63.1% ( KFF ). The win is at independent external review, and the only way to arrive there is to run the internal stage on time, in the right order, with the record intact. That sequence is what the Appeal Kit is. Get my Appeal Kit, $29 One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim. Opens on screen the moment you pay. 14-day refund, no questions, one email to hello@getaxionlabs.com. Get my Appeal Kit, $29 Everything you need for your appeal: your two deadlines, the argument that fits your denial reason, the letters, a brief for your doctor on what the reviewer checks, and the external review request. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim. Opens on screen the moment you pay. 14-day refund, no questions, one email to hello@getaxionlabs.com.

## What we will not pretend

What we will not pretend. We cannot overturn your denial. Only your plan, or an independent reviewer, can do that. We cannot make your plan cover a service it genuinely excludes. We cannot guarantee external review applies to your denial. It covers medical judgment, experimental or investigational determinations, and rescission, a purely administrative denial may not qualify, and we say so on those pages rather than selling you past it. We have no customer testimonials and publish none. Our evidence is the federal dataset and the regulation cites, both of which you can check.

## Every page on this site

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## Which release these figures are

Which release these figures are Every number on this page is the plan-year 2027 Transparency in Coverage file, issued October 22, 2026, covering plan-year 2025 claims. This is the newest plan year CMS has published: there is no Transparency in Coverage file for a plan year after 2027. The dataset list is at data.healthcare.gov . A test in this site’s build fetches that list on every run and fails if CMS publishes a plan year we have not acknowledged here. Every earlier release, plan-year 2024, plan-year 2025, plan-year 2026, is kept alongside it so the record is visible rather than a single year’s snapshot; /about says what changed between them. From the plan-year 2024 release to the plan-year 2026 release, external reviews filed went from 2,336 to 5,881. Overturned reviews went from 32.8% in the plan-year 2026 release to 22.2% in plan-year 2027, or from 32.6% to 32.6% without SelectHealth. We do not compare filed or overturned counts across plan-years 2026 and 2027. Some issuers may have counted pre-service appeals in their 2026 cells.

## Where these numbers come from

Where these numbers come from Counts: CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain . Rights and timeframes: 29 CFR 2560.503-1 (180 days, and your free right to the claim file) and 45 CFR 147.136 (4 months, and what qualifies), explained at HealthCare.gov . Expedited review is decided in about 72 hours under both sections. Reading either regulation from a script rather than a browser: eCFR answers automated fetches with a challenge page, so the same two sections are mirrored as government PDFs at govinfo.gov (29 CFR 2560.503-1) and govinfo.gov (45 CFR 147.136) .

## Who publishes this

Denial Facts publishes federal data about health insurance claim denials. We are independent: not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any insurer, government agency, or review organization. We are not a law firm, a medical provider, or an insurance producer, and nothing here is legal, medical, or insurance advice. Data: CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain. Figures cover individual-market Qualified Health Plans on the federal Exchange and come from the plan-year 2027 release, issued October 22, 2026, covering plan-year 2025 claims. This is the newest plan year CMS has published: there is no Transparency in Coverage file for a plan year after 2027. See where the data comes from .

## Sources

- CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain: https://data.healthcare.gov/
- 29 CFR 2560.503-1 (180 days, and your free right to the claim file): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-2560.503-1
- 45 CFR 147.136 (4 months, and what qualifies): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-147.136
- HealthCare.gov on external review: https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision/external-review/

Cite: Axion Labs — Denial Facts, "Antidote Health Plan of Arizona appeal form and deadline", https://denialfacts.com/insurers/antidote-health-plan-of-arizona-inc--az (checked 2026-11-04). free to quote with the URL.
