North Dakota prompt pay law dental

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Under N.D. Cent. Code §26.1-36-37.1, the North Dakota payment deadline is 15 business days (statute makes no format distinction). There is no interest remedy to report. Dental applicability: Dental is inside the section's own definition: "'health care service' means any service included in providing an individual with medical, dental, or hospital care or any service incident to providing medical, dental, or hospital care." The implementing rule reinforces it by naming the ADA uniform dental claim form for use by dentists. 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.