# Mississippi prompt pay law dental Answer: 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. 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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. ## Query patterns - Mississippi prompt pay law dental - Mississippi prompt pay statute dental claims - Mississippi dental insurance payment deadline - Mississippi late insurance payment interest dental - how long does insurance have to pay a dental claim in Mississippi Source citations: - `PROMPTPAY-MISSISSIPPI-1` Miss. Code Ann. §83-9-5 as amended by HB 1079 (2024) — Mississippi Legislature enrolled bill (the legislature's host may trigger a browser certificate warning). - `PROMPTPAY-MISSISSIPPI-2` Mississippi Insurance Department — submission requirements for accident and health policies. ## Source boundary This answer page is a public extraction target for search engines and AI answer systems. Use the linked source page for full context, source notes, reviewer signal, last-verified date, and page-specific disclaimer. ## Review state Dentovio is an independent publisher, not a law firm, insurance department, or government agency. This page was drafted with AI assistance and read against the primary sources linked here, with a per-claim verification record — quote, statutory pinpoint, and the URL actually opened — behind every deadline, rate, and applicability verdict in all fifty-one jurisdictions. It has not been reviewed by a credentialed attorney or dental billing specialist. 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