Ohio prompt pay law dental

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Under Ohio Rev. Code §3901.381; §3901.389; §3901.38, the Ohio payment deadline is 30 days (standard claim form, no format split). "Any third-party payer that fails to comply with section 3901.381 … shall pay interest," and "the interest rate … shall be equal to an annual percentage rate of eighteen per cent" (§3901.389(A)–(B)). Dental applicability: Covered, in the statute's own words. "Benefits contract" means a sickness and accident insurance policy providing hospital, surgical, or medical expense coverage, or a health insuring corporation contract or other policy under which a third-party payer agrees to reimburse for covered health care "or dental services," and the provider definition lists a dentist by name (§3901.38(B), (D)). 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.