Indiana prompt pay law dental

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Under Ind. Code §27-8-5.7-6; §27-13-36.2-4, the Indiana payment deadline is 30 days (electronic) and 45 days (paper). Interest accrues from day 31 (electronic) or day 46 (paper) until the claim is paid. Dental applicability: Covered on both tracks, but not because the chapter says so: the clean-claim chapter contains no definition of "provider" at all, and the word "dental" appears in it only in the permitted-forms list. 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.