---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 409.14"
title: "42"
number: "409.14"
heading: "Supplies, appliances, and equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/409.14"
---

# §409.14. Supplies, appliances, and equipment.

- (a) Except as specified in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, Medicare pays for supplies, appliances, and equipment as inpatient hospital or inpatient CAH services only if—
  - (1) They are ordinarily furnished by the hospital or CAH to inpatients; and
  - (2) **They are furnished to inpatients for use in the hospital or CAH.**
- (b) **Exceptions.** Medicare pays for items to be used beyond the hospital or CAH stay if—
  - (1) The item is one that the beneficiary must continue to use after he or she leaves the hospital or CAH, for example, heart valves or a heart pacemaker, or
  - (2) The item is medically necessary to permit or facilitate the beneficiary's departure from the hospital or CAH and is required until the beneficiary can obtain a continuing supply. Tracheostomy or draining tubes are examples.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, as amended at 58 FR 30666, May 26, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, as amended at 58 FR 30666, May 26, 1993]