Denial Facts
Texas

Moda denied your claim in Texas. 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.

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Moda Health Plan, Inc. denied 34,484 of 142,112 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.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. denied 24.3% of in-network claims in Texas, 34,484 claims out of 142,112.

Insurance got denied, what to do next?
We hear this most. r/HealthInsurance, thread title, read September 3, 2026.
The number nobody else publishes, and here it is missing. CMS publishes no external-review figure for Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Texas, so nobody, including the regulator, can say whether anyone ever got that far. We print no number rather than reading an absence as a zero. Nationally, 5,881 of 84,502,749 denials reached that stage, one in every 14,369, and 32.8% of those were overturned.

Those 34,484 denials are 0.2% of every in-network denial recorded in Texas in this release, which makes Moda Health Plan, Inc. the 12th largest source of denials of the 14 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 5 plans in the state that is about 6,897 denials per plan. 39 internal appeals were filed against those 34,484 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 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.

Notice for Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Texas, there is a deadline in this one. CMS says the HHS-Administered Federal External Review Process reopened on July 31, 2026. If your plan uses that process and you could not file between July 1, 2026 and August 3, 2026, CMS says you may be eligible for an extension and have until October 2, 2026 to request external review. If you filed before July 1, 2026 you do not need to resubmit; if you already have a final decision through the federal process, the extension does not apply to you. HealthCare.gov names one group this state-by-state page cannot show you: it says the extension may reach you if you have a state or local government plan in any state, not only in the states whose insurers use the federal process. Both pages were read at source on September 5, 2026 and this is what they said that day, the CCIIO external appeals page and HealthCare.gov on external review. Read them again before you rely on this: it is a live deadline and it has moved once already. Texas is one of the states CMS lists as using the federal process, so this applies to an insured plan bought there. If your plan uses a contracted independent review organization instead, none of this affects you.
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: 34,484 in-network claims were denied by Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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.

What to do tonight
  1. Find the reason code on your denial letter. The reason Moda Health Plan, Inc. records most often in Texas 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.
  2. Ask Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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.
  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 35.9% of the internal appeals it did receive, 14 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.

24.3%
In-network denial rate
34,484
Claims denied
5
Plans in Texas
39
Internal appeals filed
35.9%
Internal overturn rate

How that compares

Denial rateRateDifference
Moda Health Plan, Inc.24.3%,
Texas average18.5%+5.8 pts
National average (this dataset)18.7%+5.6 pts

Moda Health Plan, Inc. denies 5.6 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

StageFiledOverturned
Internal appeal (to Moda Health Plan, Inc.)3935.9%
External review (independent)not reportednot reported
Read the table for what it is: the external-review row above shows a dash, which means not reported and not zero, the Texas absence this page states once at the top for Moda Health Plan, Inc. and sources once at the foot. External review is free to you and the insurer must follow the decision, whatever this file does or does not record about it.

What that record means for your own Moda Health Plan, Inc. letter, and by when. Moda Health Plan, Inc. overturned 35.9% of the 39 internal appeals its Texas members filed against 34,484 denials, and the Texas escalation count for Moda Health Plan, Inc. is the figure this page names as absent at the top, so how many of those denials went on to the independent stage is not something this page can tell you, 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 Texas. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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.

What Moda Health Plan, Inc. denies most

The most common denial reason recorded for Moda Health Plan, Inc. plans in Texas is administrative reason. How that denial is beaten →

Denial reasonClaimsShareNational share
Administrative reason8,52634.2%22.5%
Service excluded from the plan6,28425.2%11.6%
Other reasons6,04824.3%32.3%
Provider out of network2,78111.2%9.8%
Referral required1,2495%8.4%
Experimental or investigational160.1%0.1%
Member not covered160.1%6.6%

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 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.

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: Moda Health Plan, Inc. overturned 35.9% of the internal appeals it received.

Questions

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

24.3% 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. denial in Texas, and how many won?

39 internal appeals were filed against 34,484 denials, and 35.9% of them were overturned (14 claims). How many went on to independent external review is not on the record for Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Texas, that is the absence stated at the top of this page and sourced at the foot of it.

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

Of the 14 insurers in Texas with a reported denial rate, Moda Health Plan, Inc. ranks 4 highest at 24.3%. The highest in Texas is Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc. at 35.7%; the lowest is CHRISTUS Health Plan at 11.7%.

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

Administrative reason, 8,526 claims, 34.2% 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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, 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 Texas 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 Texas can be charged more than that to file one.

Can Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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 Moda Health Plan, Inc. in Texas, so none is printed for it, an absent figure is not a count of none.

Moda Health Plan, Inc. sits at 24.3% 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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Where these numbers come from

The Moda Health Plan, Inc. figures on this page, the 24.3% denial rate, the 34,484 denials, are this issuer’s own reported rows in that file. CMS did not report an external-review figure for Moda Health Plan, Inc. 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).

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 an insured plan in Texas goes to the federal process, and you have the letter, free, on this screen, tonight.

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