Nebraska prompt pay law dental

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Under Neb. Rev. Stat. §§44-8004, 44-8005 (Health Care Prompt Payment Act), the Nebraska payment deadline is 30 calendar days (electronic) and 45 calendar days (any other form). The interest provision is §44-8005, not §44-8004: an insurer that fails to pay, deny, or settle a clean claim within the §44-8004 time periods "shall pay interest at the rate of twelve percent per annum on the total amount ultimately allowed on the claim, accruing from the date payment was due." Interest not paid concurrently may be paid quarterly or once the aggregate for a provider exceeds ten dollars. Dental applicability: Dental payers are named in the act — "insurer" includes "a prepaid dental service corporation" alongside sickness and accident insurance companies, health maintenance organizations, and prepaid limited health service organizations (§44-8002(4)). 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.