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Connecticut prompt pay law dental
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Under Conn. Gen. Stat. §38a-816(15), the Connecticut payment deadline is 20 days (electronic format) and 60 days (paper format). An insurer, or any other entity responsible for paying a health care provider under an insurance policy, that misses those deadlines owes the amount of the claim plus interest at 15 percent per annum (§38a-816(15)(A)). Dental applicability: Covered, and dentists are inside by name of chapter. 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.
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- 2026-08-30
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Source citations
- PROMPTPAY-CONNECTICUT-1 Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 704 §38a-816 — Connecticut General Assembly (current edition) (cga.ct.gov)
- PROMPTPAY-CONNECTICUT-2 Connecticut Insurance Department — file a complaint (portal.ct.gov)