Durable Medical Equipment (DME)

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Durable medical equipment (DME) is equipment that helps you complete your daily activities. It includes a variety of items, such as walkers, wheelchairs, and oxygen tanks.

  • Is durable, meaning it is able to withstand repeated use
  • Serves a medical purpose
  • Is appropriate for use in the home, although you can also use it outside the home

DME that Medicare covers include, but isn’t limited to:

  • Hospital beds
  • Wheelchairs
  • Rollator
  • Canes
  • Commode chairs
  • Crutches
  • Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
  • Pressure-reducing support surfaces
  • Walkers

Durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) category, Medicare Part B also covers:

  • Prosthetic devices that replace all or part of an internal bodily organ
  • Prosthetics, like artificial legs, arms, and eyes
  • Orthotics, like rigid or semi-rigid leg, arm, back, and neck braces
  • Certain medical supplies
  • OTS body braces
  • Shoes & Inserts

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