Medicare supplement plan beneficiaries who have met their deductible can receive durable medical equipment (DME) such as canes, walkers, wheelchairs, and hospital beds at no cost, but must follow Medicare's specific procedures and are subject to a five-year replacement rule that only allows exceptions for rare circumstances like natural disasters.
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How much you pay if you only have Medicare ANB will be 20% of the durable medical equipmentAdded:
Have you heard you can get free equipment through Medicare? It's kind of true. Everything you've heard is probably kind of true. So, let's say you have a Medicare supplement plan, any plan, you've met your deductible. At this point, you're eligible to get medical equipment through Medicare with no cost, so you can call that free.
Canes, walkers, wheelchairs, indoor interior mobile mobility scooters, hospital beds. There's a long list of durable medical equipment that you can get through Medicare.
Now, you got to follow their procedure.
And you don't just buy it through Amazon and expect to get reimbursed. It will not work that way. With Medicare, you can't get a new one of whatever you get.
The CPAP machine, uh whatever you get, you can't get a new one for five year five years. They have a five-year rule.
Unless something very, very rare happens, you know, like a hurricane. You can't just say, "It's wearing out. It's cosmetically ugly. I'm embarrassed to go out with it." You can't say there's technical logical advances. That won't work.
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