AZ SB1668

Requires all health care insurers offering individual, short-term limited duration, or small employer group plans to cover essential health care benefits across ten categories including ambulatory services, emergency care, hospitalization, maternity care, mental health services, prescription drugs, and pediatric care.

Prohibits insurers from declining coverage, imposing preexisting condition exclusions, canceling plans, or using health status to set premiums for individuals or small employers.

Requires coverage without cost sharing for preventive health care services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, CDC immunization committee, and HHS resources administration.

Mandates dependent coverage continuation for adult children until age twenty-six and limits cost sharing through deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments for essential health benefits.

Eliminates strikethrough language in section 20-1384 removing the exemption that short-term limited duration insurance was "not subject to state health coverage mandates," effectively subjecting it to these new requirements.