Idaho prompt pay law dental

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Under Idaho Code §§41-5602, 41-5603, 41-5605, the Idaho payment deadline is 30 days (electronic, if filed within 30 days of service) and 45 days (paper, if filed within 45 days of service). Section 41-5603 requires interest "at the contract statutory rate pursuant to section 28-22-104, Idaho Code, on the unpaid amount of a claim that is determined to be due and owing," accruing from the date payment was due until the claim is paid. Dental applicability: The word "dental" appears nowhere in Idaho's prompt-payment chapter — not in the exclusions, and not in the affirmative definition either. "Insurer" is defined as any insurer that sells hospital, medical, long-term care, or vision insurance policies or certificates, plus managed care organizations (§41-5601(6)). 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.