PBS Information Weekend’s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF Well being Information contributor Michelle Andrews about what some folks with lacking limbs contemplate a disparity in medical insurance protection: Although a knee substitute seemingly can be lined, a prosthetic knee isn’t all the time. A prosthetic system could be topic to value caps and an amputee could also be required to show medical necessity for protection. Andrews just lately explored these points in her article “Well being Insurers Restrict Protection of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity.”
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