All qualified health plans offered in the Marketplace will cover essential health benefits. Categories of essential health benefits include:

• Ambulatory patient services (outpatient care you get without being admitted to a hospital)
• Emergency services
• Hospitalization
• Maternity and newborn care (care before and after your baby is born)
• Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
• Prescription drugs
• Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices (services and devices to help people with injuries, disabilities, or chronic conditions gain or recover mental and physical skills)
• Laboratory services
• Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
• Pediatric services, including dental and vision care

The precise details of what is covered within these categories may vary somewhat from plan to plan. In addition, please keep in mind that health plans can now apply copays and deductibles to COVID-19 PCR tests now that the COVID public health emergency is now over.