Medicare covers medically necessary surgery, including different types of back surgery. Part A can help cover the hospitalization cost, and Part B can help with the cost of physical therapy ...

Medical gaslighting and medical misogyny are nothing new – but it’s time we put an end to it. When I was 13, I got my first period. I still remember the extreme pain – feeling like my ...

Michael Adams, shown here skiing in Colorado with his wife, Liza, was told by his insurer that the replacement prosthetic leg his doctor prescribed wasn’t medically necessary. (Alana Adams/TNS) When ...

Medicare covers breast ultrasounds only when they are medically necessary and ordered by a doctor who accepts Medicare. To screen for breast cancer, Original Medicare covers one mammogram per year ...

However, if a doctor confirms that liposuction is medically necessary to improve a person’s bodily function, Medicare may cover eligible costs. Some people who wish to lose weight consider ...

her health insurance company did not deem it "medically necessary," leaving the mother of three to scrape up $73,000 all on her own. The woman who lost her hand in a shark attack was forced to ...

The roughly $50,000 leg with the electronically controlled knee wasn’t medically necessary, the insurer said, even though Colorado law leaves that determination up to the patient’s doctor, and his has ...

Ottawa is now opening the door to allow health care practitioners other than doctors — nurse practitioners, pharmacists, midwives — to provide medically necessary care to be covered by ...

The roughly $50,000 leg with the electronically controlled knee wasn’t medically necessary, the insurer said, even though Colorado law leaves that determination up to the patient’s doctor ...

A plastic surgeon friend, who’s under 40 and works in Los Angeles, told me her friends—all in their 30s—are asking her where to go for the best gluteal augmentations: butt lifts. Another ...