Tennessee prompt pay law dental

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Under Tenn. Code Ann. §56-7-109, the Tennessee payment deadline is 30 calendar days (clean claims). The statute is described by the Department of Commerce and Insurance as carrying interest penalties and remediation requirements, and a related section (§56-7-1023(e)) refers to "the interest penalties and remediation requirements" under §56-7-109 — but the operative subsection could not be read on an official host, so this page states no rate. Dental applicability: The Attorney General quotes the definition: a "health insurance entity" is an entity subject to Tennessee insurance law or the commissioner's jurisdiction that contracts or offers to contract to provide health insurance coverage, "including, but not limited to, an insurance company, a health maintenance organization and a nonprofit hospital and medical service corporation" — an illustrative, not exclusive, list. 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.