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How this was checked
Every field comes from primary statutory text — state legislature and revisor sites, official codes, enrolled session law, and court opinions. Where a state's official code is paywalled we say which secondary source we used. Where a statute is ambiguous we report the ambiguity instead of resolving it.
What we deliberately did not use
Search-engine summaries and aggregator pages. That is not snobbery about sources. It is because we checked them and they are wrong often enough to be dangerous.
Six errors we found in what is publicly available
- Connecticut — search results confidently quote MAC appeal deadlines. Connecticut has no MAC law. The phrase does not appear in the relevant chapter. The quoted text comes from two bills that failed.
- Hawaii — repealed in 2023. The official code page reads, in full, "REPEALED." Summaries still describe it as live. A 2026 restoration bill died in committee.
- Alaska — the appeal statute was repealed effective 1 January 2025. A major legal aggregator still lists it, and a respected 2026 industry inventory still describes the appeal process as active.
- Kansas — repealed in April 2026 and replaced with a reimbursement floor. The state's own revisor pages still displayed the repealed text when we checked.
- South Dakota — summaries cite a MAC appeals provision to a 2025 bill. That bill is about labelling of firefighting equipment. South Dakota has no MAC appeal right.
- Michigan — a summary produced a "file within 10 days, respond within 10 days" rule. No such clause exists in the statute.
Two of those six come from reputable aggregators rather than content farms. That is the more important lesson: good secondary sources lag repeals by a year or more.
What we have not verified
- Penalties are the weakest column. Several states' figures are marked unverified rather than guessed at.
- Nine states have genuinely ambiguous appeal triggers in the statutory text — the statute says "the initial claim" without defining the event. We show the ambiguity rather than inventing a date.
- One state's regulations could not be retrieved because the state site blocks automated access. It is flagged on that state's page.
The one number we derive
The map shades states by how long the appeal window is. Statutes state those windows in two units, and a ten business day clock is longer in real time than a ten day one, so business-day windows are counted at 1.4 calendar days each purely to pick a shade. Nothing else on the site is computed — every table cell and every field on a state page is the statutory wording.
What owners report is kept separate
The response tracker is first-party reports from pharmacies, not statute, and it is never mixed into the state data. Reports are reviewed by a person before they count toward anything published, and the sample size is shown next to every figure. We do not scrape forums or social media for this: the sample would be unrepresentative, unverifiable and unattributable, which is the same failure mode as the six errors above.
What this is not
It is not legal advice, and it does not tell you that you are entitled to anything. It tells you what the statute says and links you to it. Two things in particular need a lawyer rather than a web page: whether a given claim is preempted, and how your own contract interacts with the statute.
Corrections
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