(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a health benefit plan shall not impose or apply any behavioral or medical management utilization limitations, measures, or controls for healthcare services by a crisis stabilization unit unless the behavioral or medical management limitations, measures, or controls are equivalent to, or consistent with, limitations applied to the same healthcare services by Medicaid.
(b) The Insurance Commissioner may authorize behavioral or medical management utilization limitations, measures, or controls for healthcare services by a crisis stabilization unit by rule.