No health insurer shall: Require an insured to pay a higher deductible, copayment, or coinsurance; require a longer waiting period; or impose any other condition for coverage of any of the benefits set forth in this chapter other than is required for other benefits covered by the insured’s health benefit plan; Refuse to issue a health benefit plan solely because an applicant may use any of the benefits covered by this chapter; Cancel a health benefit plan solely because an insured has used any of the benefits covered by this chapter; Offer to pay any type of material inducement or financial incentive to an insured to discourage the insured from using any of the benefits covered by this chapter; or Offer to pay any type of financial or other material incentive to a health care provider to deny, reduce, withhold, limit, or delay to an insured any of the benefits covered by this chapter.
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