Reputation grade
D
Peer-relative, A–F
Insurer profile · NAIC + CMS
CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana's complaint record, claim-denial rate and reputation grade, drawn from published NAIC complaint data and CMS Transparency in Coverage.
The verdict
CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana earns a D reputation grade - a worse-than-average record versus peers, according to CMS Transparency in Coverage filings, 28.0% of its marketplace claims were denied across 1 state.
Reputation grade
D
Peer-relative, A–F
NAIC complaint index
N/A
1.0 = market average; lower is better
Claim denial rate
28.0%
CMS, 1 states
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 →CMS marketplace filing
The reported appeals on this profile come from Louisiana (1,566 filed, 641 overturned).
CMS reports an overturn outcome for 1,566 of these 1,566 filed appeals; missing outcomes are excluded from the percentage. These filing totals are not a prediction for an individual appeal. View the CMS source ↗
CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana carries a D reputation grade in PlainInsurer's dataset, with a composite score of 23.2 (higher means more consumer friction relative to size). It does not yet carry enough NAIC complaint history for a normalized complaint index.
On the claims side, CMS Transparency-in-Coverage filings show CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana denied 28.0% of marketplace claims across 1 reporting state - an elevated rate that warrants checking the plan's appeal-success record before enrolling.
See where CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana sits against every reporting carrier in the claim-denial rate ranking.
Source: NAIC Consumer Information Source complaint data (2024). Source: CMS Transparency in Coverage PUF (PY2026), cms.gov.
Other D-graded carriers in PlainInsurer's dataset include Globe Life and Primerica Life Insurance, and the closest overall composite score to CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana's 23.2 belongs to UnitedHealthcare of North Carolina, Inc (23.8), each rescaled across the measures that carrier reports.
Carriers with the same peer-relative reputation grade
| Insurer | Grade |
|---|---|
| Globe Life | D |
| Primerica Life Insurance | D |
| Liberty Mutual Homeowners | D |
| GEICO | D |
| Farmers Insurance | D |
Carriers with the nearest overall composite score (23.2)
| Insurer | Composite score |
|---|---|
| UnitedHealthcare of North Carolina, Inc | 23.8 |
| Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska | 21.6 |
| Hawaii Medical Service Association | 25.4 |
| Esurance (Allstate) | 20.8 |
Source: NAIC published complaint index + CMS Transparency in Coverage PY2026 Complaint index, reputation grade and per-state claim denial rates for CHRISTUS Health Plan Louisiana · 2024
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Data: NAIC published complaint index (2024) · CMS Transparency in Coverage PUF PY2026. Not affiliated with NAIC or CMS.
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.