Arkansas prompt pay law dental

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Under Ark. Code Ann. §23-66-215; AID Rule 43 (23 CAR pt 15, §15-110), the Arkansas payment deadline is 30 days (electronic clean claim) and 45 days (clean claim submitted by other means). The rule sets the penalty as the clean-claim payment times 12 percent per annum times the days in the delinquent payment period, divided by 365 — and the delinquent period "begin[s] on the sixty-first day after receipt of the clean claim," for electronic and non-electronic claims alike. Dental applicability: Covered. A self-funded private-employer (ERISA) plan is generally beyond this statute's reach and runs on the federal claims-procedure clock instead — but that comes from the courts reading 29 U.S.C. § 1144, not from its text, and it is not categorical: a self-funded governmental or church plan is not an ERISA plan at all, § 1144(b)(6) leaves multiple employer welfare arrangements open to state insurance law, and nothing in § 1144 bars a state from reaching the third-party administrator or the network contract.