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Iowa prompt pay law dental
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Under Iowa Admin. Code r. 191—15.32; Iowa Code §507B.4A, the Iowa payment deadline is 30 days (no format split). Interest accrues at 10 percent per annum "commencing on the thirty-first day after the insurer's receipt of all information necessary to establish a clean claim" (Iowa Admin. Dental applicability: Iowa never names dental. 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-IOWA-1 Iowa Admin. Code r. 191—15.32 — prompt payment of certain health claims (legis.iowa.gov)
- PROMPTPAY-IOWA-2 Iowa Code §507B.4A — duty to respond to inquiries and prompt payment of claim (legis.iowa.gov)
- PROMPTPAY-IOWA-3 Iowa Insurance Division (iid.iowa.gov)