Mississippi prompt pay law dental

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Under Miss. Code Ann. §83-9-5(1)(h), the Mississippi payment deadline is 25 days (electronic clean claim) and 35 days (paper clean claim). Where payment is late, "the insurer must pay the provider … or the insured … interest on accrued benefits at the rate of three percent (3%) per month accruing from the day after payment was due on the amount of the benefits that remain unpaid until the claim is finally settled or adjudicated" (§83-9-5(1)(h)3). Dental applicability: Mississippi's prompt-pay requirements sit inside the accident and sickness policy chapter and never name 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.