Kentucky prompt pay law dental

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Under KRS 304.17A-702; 304.17A-730; 304.17C-090, the Kentucky payment deadline is 30 calendar days (all clean claims). KRS 304.17A-730 sets one retroactive rate by how late the claim is ultimately paid: 12% per year if paid 1–30 days late, 18% if 31–60 days late, and 21% beyond 60 days — the top tier triggers at day 61, not day 90 as often misquoted. Dental applicability: Expressly covered by a dedicated bridge statute. 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.