Denial Facts
Ohio

Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denied your claim. Here is your deadline.

Your two dates, free

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

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Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denied 5,966 of 47,326 in-network claims in Ohio; every one of those denials had these same two dates on it. Across Ohio as a whole the insurers in this file denied 12.7% of in-network claims, 1,509,307 of them, and 20,482 were appealed.

Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denied 12.6% of in-network claims in Ohio, 5,966 claims out of 47,326.

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

Insurance got denied, what to do next?
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The number nobody else publishes. Not one of the 5,966 denials Antidote Health Plan of Ohio issued in Ohio 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 5,966 denials are 0.4% of every in-network denial recorded in Ohio in this release, which makes Antidote Health Plan of Ohio the 7th largest source of denials of the 7 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 28 plans in the state that is about 213 denials per plan. 429 internal appeals were filed against those 5,966 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 Ohio 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 (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.

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: 5,966 in-network claims were denied by Antidote Health Plan of Ohio in Ohio 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.

What to do tonight
  1. Find the reason code on your denial letter. The reason Antidote Health Plan of Ohio records most often in Ohio is other reasons, but yours may be one of the other 8, copy the exact wording and code off your own letter tonight, because that sentence is what your appeal has to answer.
  2. Ask Antidote Health Plan of Ohio in Ohio for the clinical criteria they judged you against. Under 29 CFR 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.
  3. 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. Antidote Health Plan of Ohio overturned 36.6% of the internal appeals it did receive, 157 claims, so the stage you are about to start is not decorative.

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

12.6%
In-network denial rate
5,966
Claims denied
28
Plans in Ohio
429
Internal appeals filed
36.6%
Internal overturn rate

How that compares

Denial rateRateDifference
Antidote Health Plan of Ohio12.6%,
Ohio average12.7%-0.1 pts
National average (this dataset)15.7%-3.1 pts

Antidote Health Plan of Ohio 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

StageFiledOverturned
Internal appeal (to Antidote Health Plan of Ohio)42936.6%
External review (independent)0not reported
Read that again: Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denied 5,966 claims in Ohio, 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

5,966 claims denied. 429 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 Ohio letter, and by when. Antidote Health Plan of Ohio overturned 36.6% of the 429 internal appeals its Ohio members filed against 5,966 denials, and not one of those Ohio denials went on to the independent stage whose decision binds the plan, Antidote Health Plan of Ohio's own rows in the plan-year 2027 release of the CMS Transparency in Coverage file, read November 4, 2026 (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), carried onto individual-market coverage by 45 CFR 147.136(b)(3)(i)), while Medicare Advantage gives you 65 calendar days from the date of its notice (CMS, 42 CFR 422.582(b)) and Medicaid managed care 60 calendar days from the date on the notice (42 CFR 438.402(c)(2)(ii)), 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 Ohio notice and file well inside whichever of those windows is yours. The free steps are above; the $29 kit is the same clock with the letters pre-filled for Antidote Health Plan of Ohio in Ohio. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

Antidote Health Plan of Ohio inside Ohio

Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 8 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.

What Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denies most

The most common denial reason recorded for Antidote Health Plan of Ohio plans in Ohio is other reasons. How that denial is beaten →

Denial reasonClaimsShareNational share
Other reasons538100%32.4%

The last column is each reason's share of all categorized denials nationally, so you can see where Antidote Health Plan of Ohio's mix in Ohio differs from everyone else's. This is denial mix, not overturn rate by reason, the federal file does not report appeal outcomes broken down by denial reason, and we do not imply otherwise.

Work out your two deadlines

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

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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. For what it is worth on this page specifically: Antidote Health Plan of Ohio overturned 36.6% of the internal appeals it received.

Questions

Is Antidote Health Plan of Ohio's denial rate in Ohio high?

12.6% 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 Ohio denial in Ohio, and how many won?

429 internal appeals were filed against 5,966 denials, and 36.6% of them were overturned (157 claims). Not one went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision is binding on the plan.

How does Antidote Health Plan of Ohio compare with other insurers in Ohio?

Of the 7 insurers in Ohio with a reported denial rate, Antidote Health Plan of Ohio ranks 5 highest at 12.6%. The highest in Ohio is Summa Insurance Company, Inc. at 24.5%; the lowest is Community Insurance Company at 7.9%.

What does Antidote Health Plan of Ohio deny most often in Ohio?

Other reasons, 538 claims, 100% of this issuer's categorized denials, against 32.4% nationally. This is the denial-reason mix; the federal file does not report overturn rates by reason.

How long do I have to appeal an Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denial in Ohio?

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 Ohio, Antidote Health Plan of Ohio 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 Ohio denial in Ohio cost anything?

The internal appeal to Antidote Health Plan of Ohio 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 Ohio can be charged more than that to file one.

Can Antidote Health Plan of Ohio ignore an external review decision in Ohio?

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 5,966 Antidote Health Plan of Ohio denials in Ohio 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 Ohio's 5,966 denials in Ohio 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 Ohio figures on this page, the 12.6% denial rate, the 5,966 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. 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).

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 Ohio notice, you know that Ohio runs the external review itself, and you have the letter, free, on this screen, tonight.

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