California prompt pay law dental

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Under Cal. Health & Safety Code §1371.35; Cal. Ins. Code §10123.13, the California payment deadline is 30 calendar days (complete claims). A late complete claim carries interest at 15 percent per annum beginning the first calendar day after the 30-day period, plus the greater of an additional $15 or a fee of 10 percent of the accrued interest. Dental applicability: Covered, expressly. 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.