59A-23G-4: Benefits; minimum standards.

A. The superintendent shall adopt and promulgate rules to establish minimum standards for benefits provided by short-term plans and excepted benefits plans that are subject to the Short-Term Health Plan and Excepted Benefit Act.

B. Rules of the superintendent shall require short-term plans to cover state-mandated benefits in addition to each of the following categories of benefits:

(1) diagnostic;

(2) rehabilitative;

(3) maternity;

(4) neonatal;

(5) behavioral health services;

(6) emergency services;

(7) hospitalization;

(8) ambulatory services; and

(9) prescription drugs.