When Will Medicare Pay For A Wheelchair?
12689 POINTSview profileTed RatliffOwner, SFS Associates,It has to Medically necessary and prescribed by your doctor. Medicare will approve or disapprove the use of mobility devices based on the ability of the beneficiary. From what I have seen, it depends on the person who looks at the claim whether it is approved or not.Answered on May 20, 2013flag this answer
2330 POINTSview profileSteve AdlmanOwner, Alabama Medicare Plans, Birmingham, AlabamaMedicare Part B covers durable medical equipment which includes wheelchairs (manual and power). Your doctor has to submit a written order to Medicare stating that a wheelchair is medically necessary. If you can't operate a manual wheelchair you may qualify to get a power wheelchair. Once again that will be up to your doctor in his written orders to Medicare. Medicare will pay 80% on a wheelchair and if you have a Medicare Supplement it will pay the other 20%.Answered on April 29, 2016flag this answer
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