(a) Coverage for essential health benefits package. — A health insurer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual market shall ensure that such coverage includes the essential health benefits package in conformity with § 1302 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [42 U.S.C. § 18022], as the law and its implementing regulations were in effect on January 1, 2018, and state law. The Commissioner shall issue a regulation setting forth what constitutes “essential health benefits” for purposes of this section.
(b) Cost-sharing under individual health insurance policies. — An individual health insurance policy shall ensure that any annual cost-sharing imposed under the plan does not exceed the limitations provided for under § 1302(c)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [42 U.S.C. § 18022(c)(1)], as the law and its implementing regulations were in effect on January 1, 2018, and state law.
(c) Child-only plans. — If a health insurer offers health insurance coverage in any level of coverage specified under § 1302(d) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [42 U.S.C. § 18022(d)], as the law and its implementing regulations were in effect on January 1, 2018, or state law, the health insurer shall also offer such coverage in that level as a plan in which the only enrollees are individuals who, as of the beginning of the plan year, are under age 21.
(d) Dental only. — This section does not apply to a plan described in § 1311(d)(2)(B)(ii) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [42 U.S.C. § 18031(d)(2)(B)(ii)], as the law and its implementing regulations were in effect on January 1, 2018.