Durable Medical Equipment
Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) typically covers medically necessary durable medical equipment (DME) that your doctor prescribes for use in your home. Only your doctor can prescribe medical equipment for you. DME meets these criteria:
- Durable (long-lasting)
- Used for a medical reason
- Not usually useful to someone who isn’t sick or injured
- Used in your home
Types of Durable Medical Equipment
DME that Medicare covers includes, but isn’t limited to:
- Air-fluidized beds and other support surfaces
- Blood sugar monitors
- Blood sugar (glucose) test strips
- Canes
- Commode chairs
- Continuous passive motion (CPM) machine
- Crutches
- Hospital beds
- Infusion pumps and supplies
- Manual wheelchairs and power mobility devices
- Nebulizers and nebulizer medications
- Oxygen equipment and accessories
- Patient lifts
- Sleep apnea and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices and accessories
- Suction pumps
- Traction equipment
- Medical walkers
- Medical Equipment


