{"id":654,"date":"2025-04-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/?p=654"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:49:19","slug":"watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Why Insurance Companies Are Denying Coverage for Prosthetic Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\">PBS News Weekend<\/a>\u2019s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF 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\u2019t 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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/prosthetic-limbs-private-insurance-coverage-denials-amputees\/\">Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS News Weekend\u2019s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF 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\u2019t always. A prosthetic device can be subject to cost caps and an amputee may be required&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shapegreatness.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}