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CareSource Indiana, Inc. denied 638,511 of 3,524,662 in-network claims in Indiana; every one of those denials had these same two dates on it. Across Indiana as a whole the insurers in this file denied 15.2% of in-network claims, 980,842 of them, and 6,862 were appealed.
CareSource Indiana, Inc. denied 18.1% of in-network claims in Indiana, 638,511 claims out of 3,524,662.
Insurance got denied, what to do next?
Those 638,511 denials are 65.1% of every in-network denial recorded in Indiana in this release, which makes CareSource Indiana, Inc. the 1st largest source of denials of the 3 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 22 plans in the state that is about 29,023 denials per plan. 5,621 internal appeals were filed against those 638,511 denials. Every one of those denials carried the same two dates the tool at the top of this page works out.
Two dates matter more than anything else on this page, and they run the same in Indiana 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.
You are not alone, and here is the measured version of that sentence: 638,511 in-network claims were denied by CareSource Indiana, Inc. in Indiana 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 3 insurers reporting a denial rate in Indiana, CareSource Indiana, Inc. is the second highest at 18.1%. The highest in the state is 19.6% and the lowest is 10.5%.
- That is 0.6 percentage points below the 18.7% national average across this dataset, and 2.9 points above the Indiana average of 15.2%.
- Behind the percentage: 3,524,662 in-network claims were processed under 22 plans in Indiana, and 638,511 of them came back denied.
- For every 10,000 claims CareSource Indiana, Inc. denied, about 88 came back as an internal appeal. The other 9,912 stopped at the letter.
- Of the internal appeals it did receive, CareSource Indiana, Inc. overturned 16.63%, 935 claims that started life as a no.
- 436 of those denials went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept. Nationally 32.8% of external reviews are overturned.
- Its most-recorded denial reason is administrative reason at 20.9% of its categorized denials, against 22.5% nationally, a lighter share than the country as a whole. That is the denial mix, not an outcome rate.
- CareSource Indiana, Inc. accounts for 65.1% of every in-network claim denied in Indiana in this file.
- By raw volume it is the 35th largest source of denials among the 158 insurer-state records in the file that report one.
- Put another way: one independent external review was filed for every 1,464 claims CareSource Indiana, Inc. denied in Indiana.
- After that, its second-most-recorded reason is other reasons, 164,410 claims, 19.9% of its categorized denials.
- Third on its own list is member not covered, 136,842 claims, 16.6% of what CareSource Indiana, Inc. categorized in Indiana. Between them the top three account for 57.3% of its categorized denials.
- Where CareSource Indiana, Inc. differs most from the national mix is member not covered: 16.6% of its categorized denials in Indiana against 6.6% across the file.
- Read the other way round: 2,886,151 of those 3,524,662 in-network claims were paid, 81.9% of everything CareSource Indiana, Inc. processed in Indiana.
- Spread across the 22 plans it reports in Indiana, that is about 29,023 denied claims per plan, on about 160,212 claims processed per plan.
- Its reason columns add up to 826,730 categorized rows against 638,511 denials, 129.5% of them, and every reason share on this page is a share of that first figure rather than of the second.
- Its smallest recorded category in Indiana is not medically necessary, 93 claims, 0% of what CareSource Indiana, Inc. categorized there.
- Against the file as a whole, this one record is 0.8% of the 84,502,749 in-network claim denials reported by every issuer in it.
- Find the reason code on your denial letter. The reason CareSource Indiana, Inc. records most often in Indiana is administrative reason, 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.
- Ask CareSource Indiana, Inc. in Indiana 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.
- 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. CareSource Indiana, Inc. overturned 16.63% of the internal appeals it did receive, 935 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.
How that compares
| Denial rate | Rate | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| CareSource Indiana, Inc. | 18.1% | , |
| Indiana average | 15.2% | +2.9 pts |
| National average (this dataset) | 18.7% | -0.6 pts |
CareSource Indiana, 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 CareSource Indiana, Inc.) | 5,621 | 16.63% |
| External review (independent) | 436 | 25.46% |
The gap nobody escalated
638,511 claims denied. 5,621 internal appeals filed. 436 reached independent external review. Nationally 32.8% 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 CareSource Indiana, Inc. letter, and by when. CareSource Indiana, Inc. overturned 16.63% of the 5,621 internal appeals its Indiana members filed against 638,511 denials, and 436 of those Indiana denials went on to the independent stage whose decision binds the plan, CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s own rows in the plan-year 2026 release of the CMS Transparency in Coverage file, read September 5, 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 60 calendar days after you receive its notice (42 CFR 422.582(b)) and Medicaid managed care the same 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 CareSource Indiana, Inc. 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 CareSource Indiana, Inc. in Indiana. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.
CareSource Indiana, Inc. inside Indiana
Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 4 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.
- Across the whole of Indiana, the 5 insurers reporting in this file processed 6,461,283 in-network claims and denied 980,842 of them, a state denial rate of 15.2%. CareSource Indiana, Inc. is one of those 5.
- That puts Indiana 24th of 30 states by denial rate, 3.5 points below the 18.7% national average, before you get to what CareSource Indiana, Inc. did inside it.
- Indiana recorded 6,862 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 143 claims the state's insurers refused. CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s own ratio is one for every 114.
- Independent external review was reached 436 times in the whole of Indiana, once for every 2,250 denials, against one in 14,369 nationally. 436 of those Indiana filings came from CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s denials.
- Of the Indiana external reviews that were filed, 111 were overturned, 25.5%. That percentage is measured on 436 reviews, which is why the count beside it matters more than the rate does when you are deciding whether to file against CareSource Indiana, Inc..
- The reason Indiana's insurers record most often is administrative reason, 194,630 claims, 20.8% of the state's categorized denials. CareSource Indiana, Inc. records the same one most often, so your letter is likely to say it too.
- The other insurers an Indiana reader could have bought from run from 19.6% (Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company) to 10.5% (Anthem Ins Companies Inc(Anthem BCBS)). CareSource Indiana, Inc. at 18.1% sits between the two.
- Put the two together and CareSource Indiana, Inc. is responsible for 65.1% of every in-network claim denied in Indiana in this release, from 54.6% of the claims the state's insurers processed.
- Every Indiana figure in this section is that state's own row in the same federal file CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s numbers above come from, CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2026 release, PY2024 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain, and the full Indiana page is free at /states/indiana.
What CareSource Indiana, Inc. denies most
The most common denial reason recorded for CareSource Indiana, Inc. plans in Indiana is administrative reason. How that denial is beaten →
| Denial reason | Claims | Share | National share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative reason | 172,713 | 20.9% | 22.5% |
| Other reasons | 164,410 | 19.9% | 32.3% |
| Member not covered | 136,842 | 16.6% | 6.6% |
| Service excluded from the plan | 125,539 | 15.2% | 11.6% |
| Referral required | 96,352 | 11.7% | 8.4% |
| Provider out of network | 85,708 | 10.4% | 9.8% |
| Benefit limit reached | 45,073 | 5.5% | 4.2% |
| Not medically necessary | 93 | 0% | 4.6% |
The last column is each reason's share of all categorized denials nationally, so you can see where CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s mix in Indiana 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.
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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: CareSource Indiana, Inc. overturned 16.63% of the internal appeals it received.
Questions
Is CareSource Indiana, Inc.'s denial rate in Indiana high?
18.1% against a national average of 18.7% 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 a CareSource Indiana, Inc. denial in Indiana, and how many won?
5,621 internal appeals were filed against 638,511 denials, and 16.63% of them were overturned (935 claims). 436 went on to independent external review.
How does CareSource Indiana, Inc. compare with other insurers in Indiana?
Of the 3 insurers in Indiana with a reported denial rate, CareSource Indiana, Inc. ranks 2 highest at 18.1%. The highest in Indiana is Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company at 19.6%; the lowest is Anthem Ins Companies Inc(Anthem BCBS) at 10.5%.
What does CareSource Indiana, Inc. deny most often in Indiana?
Administrative reason, 172,713 claims, 20.9% of this issuer's categorized denials, against 22.5% nationally. This is the denial-reason mix; the federal file does not report overturn rates by reason.
How long do I have to appeal a CareSource Indiana, Inc. denial in Indiana?
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 Indiana, CareSource Indiana, 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 a CareSource Indiana, Inc. denial in Indiana cost anything?
The internal appeal to CareSource Indiana, 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 Indiana can be charged more than that to file one.
Can CareSource Indiana, Inc. ignore an external review decision in Indiana?
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 436 external reviews recorded against 638,511 CareSource Indiana, Inc. denials in Indiana the striking number on this page.
CareSource Indiana, Inc. sits at 18.1% in Indiana against 18.7% nationally, and that is the whole of what this page can honestly tell you about your own claim. I am 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 me and I will correct the page.
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The CareSource Indiana, Inc. figures on this page, the 18.1% denial rate, the 638,511 denials and the 436 external reviews, are this issuer’s own reported rows in that file.
Counts: CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2026 release, PY2024 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).