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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's complaint record, claim-denial rate and reputation grade, drawn from published NAIC complaint data and CMS Transparency in Coverage.
- D
- Reputation grade
- 26.8%
- Claims denied
- 1
- States (CMS data)
The verdict
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee earns a D reputation grade - a worse-than-average record versus peers, according to CMS Transparency in Coverage filings, 26.8% of its marketplace claims were denied across 1 state.
- D
- reputation grade
- 26.8%
- claims denied (CMS)
Graded on 1 of 3 measures: claim denials. The score is rescaled across the measures available, so it is not directly comparable with a carrier graded on more of them.
How we calculated this grade →NAIC CIS filing desk
NAIC NAIC D · 26.5
GRADE-D · INDEX-UNK · DENIAL-HOT · RANK-UNK · PHOTO-SOLO · LINES-0 · BOOK-MID
- GRADE-D D · 26.5
- INDEX-UNK Index blank
- DENIAL-HOT 26.8% denied
- RANK-UNK Rank pending
- PHOTO-SOLO No peer gap
- LINES-0 No lines
- BOOK-MID 3/7 fields
Instrument codes from this carrier’s NAIC Consumer Information Source filing: grade band, complaint index, CMS denial band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, line book, and field completeness. Not an official NAIC rating.
CMS marketplace filing
Reported appeal outcomes for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
The reported appeals on this profile come from Tennessee (587 filed, 264 overturned).
CMS reports an overturn outcome for 587 of these 587 filed appeals; missing outcomes are excluded from the percentage. These filing totals are not a prediction for an individual appeal. View the CMS source ↗
What the NAIC filing desk shows for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's filing desk summarizes the NAIC complaint record and any CMS marketplace denial data on file.
See where BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee sits against every reporting carrier in the claim-denial rate ranking. Appeal notes for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
Nationwide insurers with similar scores or complaint volume
Two corpus-wide peer sets for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee: nearest national-scale carriers by composite score and by NAIC complaint volume. These are cross-market neighborhoods, not the corporate-family list or same-grade chips above.
Similar composite score
Nearest carriers by composite score (26.5 here). Floored at 50+ complaints and 5+ states.
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Source: NAIC published complaint index + CMS Transparency in Coverage PY2026 Complaint index, reputation grade and per-state claim denial rates for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee · 2024
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Every figure on PlainInsurer comes directly from NAIC MCAS and CMS Transparency in Coverage data; no editor types in numbers. See our editorial standards or methodology, or report an error. Data current as of 2026-08-11. Grades measure only the published complaint/denial data; we don't recommend any insurer or policy.