Maryland prompt pay law dental

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Under Md. Code Ann., Ins. §15-1005, the Maryland payment deadline is 30 days (pay or send a receipt-and-status notice). Maryland puts the rate in the statute, not in regulation: interest runs on the amount unpaid 30 days after receipt at the monthly rate of 1.5 percent from the 31st through the 60th day, 2 percent from the 61st through the 120th day, and 2.5 percent after the 120th day (§15-1005(g)(1)). Dental applicability: Covered by cross-reference rather than by name. 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.