Community First Insurance Plans denied your claim in Texas. Here is your deadline.
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Community First Insurance Plans denied 34,419 of 112,382 in-network claims in Texas; every one of those denials had these same two dates on it. Across Texas as a whole the insurers in this file denied 18.5% of in-network claims, 22,372,063 of them, and 90,241 were appealed.
Community First Insurance Plans denied 30.6% of in-network claims in Texas, 34,419 claims out of 112,382.
Insurance got denied, what to do next?
Those 34,419 denials are 0.2% of every in-network denial recorded in Texas in this release, which makes Community First Insurance Plans the 13th largest source of denials of the 14 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 4 plans in the state that is about 8,605 denials per plan. 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 Texas 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: 34,419 in-network claims were denied by Community First Insurance Plans in Texas 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 14 insurers reporting a denial rate in Texas, Community First Insurance Plans is the second highest at 30.6%. The highest in the state is 35.7% and the lowest is 11.7%.
- That is 11.9 percentage points above the 18.7% national average across this dataset, and 12.1 points above the Texas average of 18.5%.
- Behind the percentage: 112,382 in-network claims were processed under 4 plans in Texas, and 34,419 of them came back denied.
- Its most-recorded denial reason is other reasons at 81% of its categorized denials, against 32.3% nationally, a heavier share than the country as a whole. That is the denial mix, not an outcome rate.
- Community First Insurance Plans accounts for 0.2% of every in-network claim denied in Texas in this file.
- By raw volume it is the 125th largest source of denials among the 158 insurer-state records in the file that report one.
- After that, its second-most-recorded reason is benefit limit reached, 6,389 claims, 16.5% of its categorized denials.
- Third on its own list is referral required, 811 claims, 2.1% of what Community First Insurance Plans categorized in Texas. Between them the top three account for 99.6% of its categorized denials.
- Where Community First Insurance Plans differs most from the national mix is other reasons: 81% of its categorized denials in Texas against 32.3% across the file.
- Read the other way round: 77,963 of those 112,382 in-network claims were paid, 69.4% of everything Community First Insurance Plans processed in Texas.
- Spread across the 4 plans it reports in Texas, that is about 8,605 denied claims per plan, on about 28,096 claims processed per plan.
- Its reason columns add up to 38,661 categorized rows against 34,419 denials, 112.3% 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 Texas is service excluded from the plan, 75 claims, 0.2% of what Community First Insurance Plans categorized there.
- Against the file as a whole, this one record is 0% 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 Community First Insurance Plans records most often in Texas 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.
- Ask Community First Insurance Plans in Texas 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. 34,419 claims were denied here in a single year and the escalation count for Community First Insurance Plans in Texas is the figure the top of this page records as absent, so how many were escalated is not on the record; the deadline is what decides whether anyone reads the argument.
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How that compares
| Denial rate | Rate | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Community First Insurance Plans | 30.6% | , |
| Texas average | 18.5% | +12.1 pts |
| National average (this dataset) | 18.7% | +11.9 pts |
Community First Insurance Plans denies 11.9 percentage points more of its in-network claims than 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 Community First Insurance Plans) | not reported | not reported |
| External review (independent) | not reported | not reported |
What that record means for your own Community First Insurance Plans letter, and by when. Community First Insurance Plans recorded 34,419 denials in Texas and no separately reported appeal outcome, so this page cannot tell you how its Texas appeals went, the Community First Insurance Plans 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 Community First Insurance Plans 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 Community First Insurance Plans in Texas. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.
Community First Insurance Plans inside Texas
Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 17 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.
- Across the whole of Texas, the 18 insurers reporting in this file processed 120,606,438 in-network claims and denied 22,372,063 of them, a state denial rate of 18.5%. Community First Insurance Plans is one of those 18.
- That puts Texas 14th of 30 states by denial rate, 0.2 points below the 18.7% national average, before you get to what Community First Insurance Plans did inside it.
- Texas recorded 90,241 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 248 claims the state's insurers refused.
- Independent external review was reached 1,908 times in the whole of Texas, once for every 11,725 denials, against one in 14,369 nationally. How many came from Community First Insurance Plans's denials is not on the record, that is the Texas figure this page names as absent at the top and sources at the foot.
- Of the Texas external reviews that were filed, 849 were overturned, 44.5%. That percentage is measured on 1,908 reviews, which is why the count beside it matters more than the rate does when you are deciding whether to file against Community First Insurance Plans.
- The reason Texas's insurers record most often is other reasons, 9,919,256 claims, 38.7% of the state's categorized denials. Community First Insurance Plans records the same one most often, so your letter is likely to say it too.
- The other insurers a Texas reader could have bought from run from 35.7% (Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc.) to 11.7% (CHRISTUS Health Plan). Community First Insurance Plans at 30.6% sits between the two.
- Put the two together and Community First Insurance Plans is responsible for 0.2% of every in-network claim denied in Texas in this release, from 0.1% of the claims the state's insurers processed.
- Every Texas figure in this section is that state's own row in the same federal file Community First Insurance Plans'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 Texas page is free at /states/texas.
What Community First Insurance Plans denies most
The most common denial reason recorded for Community First Insurance Plans plans in Texas is other reasons. How that denial is beaten →
| Denial reason | Claims | Share | National share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other reasons | 31,304 | 81% | 32.3% |
| Benefit limit reached | 6,389 | 16.5% | 4.2% |
| Referral required | 811 | 2.1% | 8.4% |
| Administrative reason | 82 | 0.2% | 22.5% |
| Service excluded from the plan | 75 | 0.2% | 11.6% |
The last column is each reason's share of all categorized denials nationally, so you can see where Community First Insurance Plans's mix in Texas 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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Questions
Is Community First Insurance Plans's denial rate in Texas high?
30.6% against a national average of 18.7% across the plans in this dataset. It is above average. A denial rate describes the insurer, not the merits of your claim.
How many people appealed a Community First Insurance Plans denial in Texas, and how many won?
Appeal volumes were not separately reported for Community First Insurance Plans in Texas. Across Texas as a whole 90,241 internal appeals were filed against 22,372,063 denials, one for every 248 refused, and that is the state figure, not this company's. Nationally, 32.6% of internal appeals and 32.8% of external reviews are overturned.
How does Community First Insurance Plans compare with other insurers in Texas?
Of the 14 insurers in Texas with a reported denial rate, Community First Insurance Plans ranks 2 highest at 30.6%. The highest in Texas is Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc. at 35.7%; the lowest is CHRISTUS Health Plan at 11.7%.
What does Community First Insurance Plans deny most often in Texas?
Other reasons, 31,304 claims, 81% of this issuer's categorized denials, against 32.3% 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 Community First Insurance Plans denial in Texas?
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 Texas, Community First Insurance Plans 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 Community First Insurance Plans denial in Texas cost anything?
The internal appeal to Community First Insurance Plans 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 Texas can be charged more than that to file one.
Can Community First Insurance Plans ignore an external review decision in Texas?
No, and that is the whole point of the stage. External review decisions are binding on the plan by law. The count is the one this page names as absent for Community First Insurance Plans in Texas, so none is printed for it, an absent figure is not a count of none.
Community First Insurance Plans sits at 30.6% in Texas 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 Community First Insurance Plans figures on this page, the 30.6% denial rate, the 34,419 denials, are this issuer’s own reported rows in that file. CMS did not report an external-review figure for Community First Insurance Plans in Texas in the plan-year 2026 release of the Transparency in Coverage file, which is why no external-review count appears above.
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).