Monday, May 2, 2011

Do any health insurance companies pay for a Wii system?

I'm curious because I heard a doctor state that in the next few years they would be prescribing them and insurance would be paying for them to help overweight and stroke patients.
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Insurance companies pay for treatments and things by determining whether the treatment/item is medically necessary for treatment. For instance, if you get a CT scan for no reason, your insurance won't cover it and you'll pay for the entire thing. If you are experiencing migraines and you get a CT scan, it's much more likely that insurance will pay for the procedure. Unless a doctor can prove that the Wii is medically necessary for treatment of the illness/disease/disorder in question, I wouldn't count on it being covered.
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