Kansas prompt pay law dental

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Under K.S.A. 40-2442; 40-2441, the Kansas payment deadline is 30 days (no format split). An insurer that fails to comply must pay interest at 1 percent per month on the amount of the claim remaining unpaid 30 days after receipt, and that interest "shall be included in any late reimbursement without requiring the person who filed the original claim to make any additional claim for such interest" (K.S.A. 40-2442(b)). Dental applicability: Expressly covered — Kansas names dental in the definition itself. 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.