If you have been giving a serious thought to getting a mobile scooter but are not sure if the mobile scooter is right for your disease or condition and also are not sure if Medicare pays for mobile scooters, then you are reading the right article.
In what follows, you will find a list of conditions that Medicare mobile scooters can help you with.
Also, you will discover the formal conditions that you must fulfill and procedures that you must follow in order for Medicare to pay for your mobile scooter.
When you finish reading you should at least have a better idea on whether it makes sense for you to go after a Medicare mobile scooter to increase your mobility.
Let's begin.
The conditions the Medicare mobile scooters can help you with Since walking is such an automatic behavior for most of us, it comes as a shock sometimes to realize how many of the processes in our body and brains are necessary to make walking easy and natural.
As a consequence, there are many different conditions and diseases in our bodies that make walking difficult, tiresome, or impossible.
Some of these conditions are:

• Polio
• Cerebral palsy
• Spinal cord injury
• Lung related diseases
• Arthritis
• Injuries

This is not a complete list; a larger list will be presented below.
Will Medicare pay for my mobile scooter? Yes, Medicare pays for mobile or mobility scooters in many cases.
As many other governmental organizations, Medicare, however, is very strict in requiring that you meet certain conditions before it will contribute financially.
Second, Medicare requires that you follow a strict regiment of procedures in order to qualify successfully.
If you do not follow these procedures, your Medicare mobile scooter application will be slowed down significantly or you may even just start from scratch.
So if you are serious about getting Medicare payment for your mobile scooter, follow these restrictions and procedures to the "T": Conditions you must meet for Medicare to pay for your mobility scooter

• You must need to use a mobility scooter in your house
• you must NOT have the upper body strength that would allow you to use a manual wheelchair
• you must be able to operate a mobility scooter on your own
• you must be able to get on the scooter and off of it safely
• you must have manual dexterity to operate a scooter
• you must have upper body strength sufficient to operate a scooter
• your intent must not be to prevent injury, but it must be to gain the ability to independently move

Procedures you must go through - This is how Medicare pays for a mobility scooter

• all of the above conditions must be confirmed by your doctor
• your doctor must write you a prescription for the mobility scooter
• you need to purchase from the mobility scooter provider that is "enrolled" with Medicare