Superior denied your claim in Texas. Here is your deadline.
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Superior Health Plan denied 1,556,425 of 12,404,344 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 17.3% of in-network claims, 24,184,622 of them, and 89,989 were appealed.
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Superior Health Plan denied 12.5% of in-network claims in Texas, 1,556,425 claims out of 12,404,344.
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Insurance got denied, what to do next?
Those 1,556,425 denials are 6.4% of every in-network denial recorded in Texas in this release, which makes Superior Health Plan the 4th largest source of denials of the 13 insurers reporting there. Spread across its 21 plans in the state that is about 74,115 denials per plan. 0 internal appeals were filed against those 1,556,425 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 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: 1,556,425 in-network claims were denied by Superior Health Plan 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 13 insurers reporting a denial rate in Texas, Superior Health Plan is the tenth highest at 12.5%. The highest in the state is 36.8% and the lowest is 9.8%.
- That is 3.2 percentage points below the 15.7% national average across this dataset, and 4.8 points below the Texas average of 17.3%.
- Behind the percentage: 12,404,344 in-network claims were processed under 21 plans in Texas, and 1,556,425 of them came back denied.
- For every 10,000 claims Superior Health Plan denied, about 0 came back as an internal appeal. The other 10,000 stopped at the letter.
- Not one of those denials reached independent external review, the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept, and where nationally 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) are overturned.
- Its most-recorded denial reason is referral required at 19.8% of its categorized denials, against 9.6% nationally, a heavier share than the country as a whole. That is the denial mix, not an outcome rate.
- Superior Health Plan accounts for 6.4% of every in-network claim denied in Texas in this file.
- By raw volume it is the 12th largest source of denials among the 135 insurer-state records in the file that report one.
- After that, its second-most-recorded reason is not medically necessary, 580,621 claims, 16.1% of its categorized denials.
- Third on its own list is administrative reason, 547,166 claims, 15.2% of what Superior Health Plan categorized in Texas. Between them the top three account for 51.1% of its categorized denials.
- Where Superior Health Plan differs most from the national mix is not medically necessary: 16.1% of its categorized denials in Texas against 5.5% across the file.
- Read the other way round: 10,847,919 of those 12,404,344 in-network claims were paid, 87.5% of everything Superior Health Plan processed in Texas.
- Spread across the 21 plans it reports in Texas, that is about 74,115 denied claims per plan, on about 590,683 claims processed per plan.
- Its reason columns add up to 3,599,216 categorized rows against 1,556,425 denials, 231.2% 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 member not covered, 123,223 claims, 3.4% of what Superior Health Plan categorized there.
- Against the file as a whole, this one record is 1.9% of the 83,907,852 in-network claim denials reported by every issuer in it.
- Find the reason code on your denial letter. The reason Superior Health Plan records most often in Texas is referral required, 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 Superior Health Plan 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. 1,556,425 claims were denied here in a single year and not one was escalated; the deadline is what decides whether anyone reads the argument.
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How that compares
| Denial rate | Rate | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | 12.5% | , |
| Texas average | 17.3% | -4.8 pts |
| National average (this dataset) | 15.7% | -3.2 pts |
Superior Health Plan 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 Superior Health Plan) | 0 | not reported |
| External review (independent) | 0 | not reported |
The gap nobody escalated
1,556,425 claims denied. 0 internal appeals filed. None reached independent external review. 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 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 Superior Health Plan letter, and by when. Superior Health Plan recorded 1,556,425 denials in Texas and no separately reported appeal outcome, so this page cannot tell you how its Texas appeals went, the Superior Health Plan 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 Superior Health Plan 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 Superior Health Plan in Texas. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.
Superior Health Plan inside Texas
Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 15 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.
- Across the whole of Texas, the 16 insurers reporting in this file processed 139,454,274 in-network claims and denied 24,184,622 of them, a state denial rate of 17.3%. Superior Health Plan is one of those 16.
- That puts Texas 11th of 29 states by denial rate, 1.6 points above the 15.7% national average, before you get to what Superior Health Plan did inside it.
- Texas recorded 89,989 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 269 claims the state's insurers refused.
- Independent external review was reached 158 times in the whole of Texas, once for every 153,067 denials, against one in 17,061 nationally. None of them came from Superior Health Plan's denials.
- Of the Texas external reviews that were filed, 50 were overturned, 31.6%. That percentage is measured on 158 reviews, which is why the count beside it matters more than the rate does when you are deciding whether to file against Superior Health Plan.
- The reason Texas's insurers record most often is other reasons, 13,485,994 claims, 35.5% of the state's categorized denials. Superior Health Plan records referral required most often instead, which is the argument your letter will need to answer.
- The other insurers a Texas reader could have bought from run from 36.8% (Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc.) to 9.8% (Celtic Insurance Company). Superior Health Plan at 12.5% sits between the two.
- Put the two together and Superior Health Plan is responsible for 6.4% of every in-network claim denied in Texas in this release, from 8.9% 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 Superior Health Plan'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 Texas page is free at /states/texas.
What Superior Health Plan denies most
The most common denial reason recorded for Superior Health Plan plans in Texas is referral required. How that denial is beaten →
| Denial reason | Claims | Share | National share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Referral required | 710,948 | 19.8% | 9.6% |
| Not medically necessary | 580,621 | 16.1% | 5.5% |
| Administrative reason | 547,166 | 15.2% | 17.2% |
| Service excluded from the plan | 521,688 | 14.5% | 13.4% |
| Provider out of network | 477,004 | 13.3% | 9% |
| Other reasons | 381,136 | 10.6% | 32.4% |
| Benefit limit reached | 257,430 | 7.2% | 4.9% |
| Member not covered | 123,223 | 3.4% | 7.9% |
The last column is each reason's share of all categorized denials nationally, so you can see where Superior Health Plan'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 Superior Health Plan's denial rate in Texas high?
12.5% against a national average of 15.7% 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 Superior Health Plan denial in Texas, and how many won?
0 internal appeals were filed against 1,556,425 denials, and the overturn rate was not separately reported. Not one went on to independent external review, the stage whose decision is binding on the plan.
How does Superior Health Plan compare with other insurers in Texas?
Of the 13 insurers in Texas with a reported denial rate, Superior Health Plan ranks 10 highest at 12.5%. The highest in Texas is Imperial Insurance Companies, Inc. at 36.8%; the lowest is Celtic Insurance Company at 9.8%.
What does Superior Health Plan deny most often in Texas?
Referral required, 710,948 claims, 19.8% of this issuer's categorized denials, against 9.6% 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 Superior Health Plan 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, Superior Health Plan 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 Superior Health Plan denial in Texas cost anything?
The internal appeal to Superior Health Plan 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 Superior Health Plan 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, which is what makes the zero external reviews recorded against 1,556,425 Superior Health Plan denials in Texas the striking number on this page.
The line on this page we would read twice is the one that says not one of Superior Health Plan's 1,556,425 denials in Texas reached independent review. We are 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 us and we will correct the page.
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The Superior Health Plan figures on this page, the 12.5% denial rate, the 1,556,425 denials and the 0 external reviews, are this issuer’s own reported rows in that file.
Counts: CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 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).