An LLC changes liability, not health insurance. What decides the premium's tax treatment is how the LLC is taxed: disregarded (Schedule C), S corporation (payroll and Box 1) or partnership.
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Forming an LLC is often the first business step a 1099 worker takes, and the first question a licensed agent gets afterwards is whether the LLC should buy the plan. It does not matter; the tax election does.
Premiums are set county by county and the credit is set by income, so no table can give a 1099 worker a final number. Enter your ZIP and a licensed agent prices every plan filed where you live against what you actually expect to earn.
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A single-member LLC that has made no election is taxed as a sole proprietorship: Schedule C, the self-employed health insurance deduction up to net profit, the credit on MAGI. The policy can be in your name or the LLC’s; the deduction is the same. The sole proprietor page applies in full.
Now you are an employee-owner. The LLC pays or reimburses the premium, adds it to Box 1 of your W-2 (not to Social Security or Medicare wages), and you take the deduction on your personal return. Miss the Box 1 step and the deduction is lost for the year. Details.
Premiums paid by the partnership for a partner are guaranteed payments: income to the partner, deductible by the partner above the line. The partner, not the partnership, takes the health insurance deduction.
A one-person LLC with no employees has no group to insure, and a more-than-2%% S-corp owner cannot take an ICHRA or QSEHRA reimbursement tax-free. The individual market, with the deduction and the credit, is the route; once the LLC hires W-2 staff the question changes and Plans For Small Business takes over.