{"id":20221,"date":"2022-09-13T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20221"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:01:33","slug":"medicare-needs-to-update-its-wheelchair-coverage-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20221","title":{"rendered":"Medicare needs to update its wheelchair coverage for the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Amadeus Lane and Jim Meade for STAT News on September 12, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of us have spent much of our lives in wheelchairs. But not just any wheelchairs. Ours are equipped with power seat elevation and standing technologies individually configured to meet our needs.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/medicare-needs-to-update-its-wheelchair-coverage-for-the-21st-century\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/medicare-needs-to-update-its-wheelchair-coverage-for-the-21st-century\/\"> here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/medicare-needs-to-update-its-wheelchair-coverage-for-the-21st-century\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/medicare-needs-to-update-its-wheelchair-coverage-for-the-21st-century\/\">.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-7817\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg 2393w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-390x205.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Amadeus Lane and Jim Meade for STAT News on September 12, 2022 Both of us have spent much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[61,94],"class_list":["post-20221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20222,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221\/revisions\/20222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}