Priority denied your claim in Michigan. Here is your deadline.

You are not alone, and here is the measured version of that sentence: 243,454 in-network claims were denied by Priority Health in Michigan 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 7 insurers reporting a denial rate in Michigan, Priority Health is the seventh highest at 7.6%. The highest in the state is 30.9% and the lowest is 7.6%.
• That is 8.1 percentage points below the 15.7% national average across this dataset, and 10.1 points below the Michigan average of 17.7%.
• Behind the percentage: 3,223,624 in-network claims were processed under 53 plans in Michigan, and 243,454 of them came back denied.
• For every 10,000 claims Priority Health denied, about 5 came back as an internal appeal. The other 9,995 stopped at the letter.
• Of the internal appeals it did receive, Priority Health overturned 15.32%, 17 claims that started life as a no.
• 23 of those denials went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept. 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.
• Its most-recorded denial reason is other reasons at 49.1% of its categorized denials, against 32.4% nationally, a heavier share than the country as a whole. That is the denial mix, not an outcome rate.
• Priority Health accounts for 8.2% of every in-network claim denied in Michigan in this file.
• By raw volume it is the 59th largest source of denials among the 135 insurer-state records in the file that report one.
• Put another way: one independent external review was filed for every 10,585 claims Priority Health denied in Michigan.
• After that, its second-most-recorded reason is administrative reason, 1,039 claims, 30.2% of its categorized denials.
• Third on its own list is provider out of network, 229 claims, 6.6% of what Priority Health categorized in Michigan. Between them the top three account for 85.9% of its categorized denials.
• Where Priority Health differs most from the national mix is other reasons: 49.1% of its categorized denials in Michigan against 32.4% across the file.
• Read the other way round: 2,980,170 of those 3,223,624 in-network claims were paid, 92.4% of everything Priority Health processed in Michigan.
• Spread across the 53 plans it reports in Michigan, that is about 4,593 denied claims per plan, on about 60,823 claims processed per plan.
• Its reason columns add up to 3,446 categorized rows against 243,454 denials, 1.4% 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 Michigan is not medically necessary, 32 claims, 0.9% of what Priority Health categorized there.
• Against the file as a whole, this one record is 0.3% of the 83,907,852 in-network claim denials reported by every issuer in it.

What happened to appeals

What that record means for your own Priority Health letter, and by when. Priority Health overturned 15.32% of the 111 internal appeals its Michigan members filed against 243,454 denials, and 23 of those Michigan denials went on to the independent stage whose decision binds the plan, Priority Health'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 Priority Health 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 Priority Health in Michigan. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

Priority Health inside Michigan

Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 6 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.

• Across the whole of Michigan, the 7 insurers reporting in this file processed 16,745,324 in-network claims and denied 2,967,990 of them, a state denial rate of 17.7%. Priority Health is one of those 7.
• That puts Michigan ninth of 29 states by denial rate, 2 points above the 15.7% national average, before you get to what Priority Health did inside it.
• Michigan recorded 3,478 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 853 claims the state's insurers refused. Priority Health's own ratio is one for every 2,193.
• Independent external review was reached 119 times in the whole of Michigan, once for every 24,941 denials, against one in 17,061 nationally. 23 of those Michigan filings came from Priority Health's denials.
• Of the Michigan external reviews that were filed, 0 were overturned, 0%. That percentage is measured on 119 reviews, which is why the count beside it matters more than the rate does when you are deciding whether to file against Priority Health.
• The reason Michigan's insurers record most often is other reasons, 1,241,528 claims, 38.9% of the state's categorized denials. Priority Health records the same one most often, so your letter is likely to say it too.
• The other insurers a Michigan reader could have bought from run from 30.9% (Blue Care Network of Michigan) to 12.2% (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Mutual Insurance Company). Priority Health at 7.6% sits below all of them.
• Put the two together and Priority Health is responsible for 8.2% of every in-network claim denied in Michigan in this release, from 19.3% of the claims the state's insurers processed.
• Every Michigan figure in this section is that state's own row in the same federal file Priority Health's numbers above come from, CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain, and the full Michigan page is free at /states/michigan.

What Priority Health denies most

The most common denial reason recorded for Priority Health plans in Michigan is other reasons. How that denial is beaten →

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

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: Priority Health overturned 15.32% of the internal appeals it received.

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