Denial Facts
Alaska

Moda denied your claim in Alaska. Here is your deadline.

Your two dates, free

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

Free, for a Moda Health Plan, Inc. denial in Alaska, 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.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. denied 29,231 of 168,684 in-network claims in Alaska; every one of those denials had these same two dates on it. Across Alaska as a whole the insurers in this file denied 25.3% of in-network claims, 239,313 of them, and 222 were appealed.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. denied 17.3% of in-network claims in Alaska, 29,231 claims out of 168,684.

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The number nobody else publishes. Not one of the 29,231 denials Moda Health Plan, Inc. issued in Alaska 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 32.8% of the reviews that got there were overturned.

Those 29,231 denials are 12.2% of every in-network denial recorded in Alaska in this release, which makes Moda Health Plan, Inc. the 2nd largest source of denials of the 2 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 7 plans in the state that is about 4,176 denials per plan. 35 internal appeals were filed against those 29,231 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 Alaska 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 September 5, 2026 · CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2026 release, PY2024 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain

You are not alone, and here is the measured version of that sentence: 29,231 in-network claims were denied by Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Alaska 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. records most often in Alaska is service excluded from the plan, 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Alaska 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. Moda Health Plan, Inc. overturned 48.57% of the internal appeals it did receive, 17 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.

17.3%
In-network denial rate
29,231
Claims denied
7
Plans in Alaska
35
Internal appeals filed
48.57%
Internal overturn rate

How that compares

Denial rateRateDifference
Moda Health Plan, Inc.17.3%,
Alaska average25.3%-8 pts
National average (this dataset)18.7%-1.4 pts

Moda Health Plan, 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

StageFiledOverturned
Internal appeal (to Moda Health Plan, Inc.)3548.57%
External review (independent)00%
Read that again: Moda Health Plan, Inc. denied 29,231 claims in Alaska, 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

29,231 claims denied. 35 internal appeals filed. None 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. letter, and by when. Moda Health Plan, Inc. overturned 48.57% of the 35 internal appeals its Alaska members filed against 29,231 denials, and not one of those Alaska denials went on to the independent stage whose decision binds the plan, Moda Health Plan, 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 Moda Health Plan, 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Alaska. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. inside Alaska

Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 1 other insurer reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.

What Moda Health Plan, Inc. denies most

The most common denial reason recorded for Moda Health Plan, Inc. plans in Alaska is service excluded from the plan. How that denial is beaten →

Denial reasonClaimsShareNational share
Service excluded from the plan16,80643.6%11.6%
Administrative reason16,24742.2%22.5%
Other reasons3,0537.9%32.3%
Referral required2,0225.2%8.4%
Member not covered2180.6%6.6%
Benefit limit reached760.2%4.2%
Experimental or investigational630.2%0.1%
Not medically necessary150%4.6%
Provider out of network150%9.8%

The last column is each reason's share of all categorized denials nationally, so you can see where Moda Health Plan, Inc.'s mix in Alaska 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.

Runs entirely in your browser, the date you type is never sent to us and never stored. Open the full calculator →

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: Moda Health Plan, Inc. overturned 48.57% of the internal appeals it received.

Questions

Is Moda Health Plan, Inc.'s denial rate in Alaska high?

17.3% 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. denial in Alaska, and how many won?

35 internal appeals were filed against 29,231 denials, and 48.57% of them were overturned (17 claims). Not one went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision is binding on the plan.

How does Moda Health Plan, Inc. compare with other insurers in Alaska?

Of the 2 insurers in Alaska with a reported denial rate, Moda Health Plan, Inc. ranks 2 highest at 17.3%. The highest in Alaska is Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska at 27%; the lowest is Moda Health Plan, Inc. at 17.3%.

What does Moda Health Plan, Inc. deny most often in Alaska?

Service excluded from the plan, 16,806 claims, 43.6% of this issuer's categorized denials, against 11.6% 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. denial in Alaska?

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 Alaska, Moda Health Plan, 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. denial in Alaska cost anything?

The internal appeal to Moda Health Plan, 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 Alaska can be charged more than that to file one.

Can Moda Health Plan, Inc. ignore an external review decision in Alaska?

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 29,231 Moda Health Plan, Inc. denials in Alaska the striking number on this page.

The line on this page I would read twice is the one that says not one of Moda Health Plan, Inc.'s 29,231 denials in Alaska reached independent review. 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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Where these numbers come from

The Moda Health Plan, Inc. figures on this page, the 17.3% denial rate, the 29,231 denials and the 0 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).

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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. notice, you know that Alaska runs the external review itself, and you have the letter, free, on this screen, tonight.

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