how much does it cost to rent a wheelchair
WHAT: Medicare pays $800 to rent a wheelchair that retails for $350. COST: Medicare spent $188 million on manual wheelchairs in 2009; officials can't say how much of that involved overpayments.
1 Costs for a power wheelchair vary tremendously, starting around $1,200-$1,500 and going as high as $30,000. 2  One study, published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, evaluated 15 electric-powered wheelchairs, with an average cost of $7,132.