Bright Health: timely filing limit
Initial claim
No published default
Timely filing limits vary by contract. We could not confirm a single default limit that applies across every Bright Health contract, so we are not going to state one. Check your own participation agreement, or the payer portal, before relying on a number for this deadline.
Clock starts from: date of service
Appeal window
No published default appeal window. Check the payer's own appeals policy.
Caveats
Bright Health Group exited the individual and family plan marketplace entirely and wound down Medicare Advantage in nearly every state by the end of 2023, retaining only a limited California Medicare Advantage footprint. Because the commercial book of business has been discontinued in most markets, a current, generally applicable timely filing figure could not be identified; any pre-2023 figure found in older billing references should be treated as historical only.
Retrieved 2026-07-18.
Denied for timely filing already
See CARC 29 for the corrective actions and whether an appeal is worth filing.
DenialPath provides billing and administrative guidance based on published CMS and X12 sources. It is not medical advice, not a coverage determination, and not a guarantee of payment. NCCI and MUE edits are republished quarterly and payer policies vary by contract. Always confirm against the payer's own current policy before submitting or appealing.