鈥檚 Ali Rogin spoke with 麻豆女优 Health News contributor Michelle Andrews about what some people with missing limbs consider a disparity in health insurance coverage: Though a knee replacement likely would be covered, a prosthetic knee isn鈥檛 always. A prosthetic device can be subject to cost caps and an amputee may be required to prove medical necessity for coverage. Andrews recently explored these issues in her article 鈥Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity.鈥
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