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- Do you qualify for the Food & Home Card?
Do you qualify for the Food & Home Card?
Some of our plans offer the Food & Home Card only if you are chronically ill and have certain long-term health conditions (visit our portal or check your plan documents). If that’s your plan — and a doctor has said you have one or more of the conditions listed below — you may qualify.* Not sure? Call us at 1-800-338-6833, TTY 711.
Top 10 most common qualifying conditions
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Depression
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure, also called hypertension
- High cholesterol
- Osteoporosis (weak bones) or family history of osteoporosis
- Severe obesity (Body Mass Index of 40 or higher)
All qualifying conditions
Conditions that affect your bones or joints, like:
- Arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis (weak bones)
- Family history of osteoporosis
Conditions that affect your lungs or breathing, like:
- Asthma
- Emphysema
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Chronic bronchitis
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
Heart conditions, like:
- Cardiac arrhythmias (unusual heart rhythms, like when your heart flutters or “skips a beat”)
- Coronary artery disease
- Chronic heart failure (CHF)
- Atrial fibrillation, also called A-Fib
Conditions that affect your blood vessels, like:
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Varicose veins with ulcers
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Carotid artery disease
- Aortic aneurysm or abdominal aortic aneurysm
- A history of blood clots in your lungs or other places in your body — doctors may call this deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or chronic venous thromboembolic disorder
- A history of stroke (a blood clot in your brain)
Any form of cancer
Not including pre-cancer
Severe obesity
Body Mass Index of 40 or higher
A long-term infectious disease, like:
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis B
- Lyme disease
Endocrine (hormone) conditions, like:
- Diabetes
- Thyroid problems
- Addison’s Disease
- Cushing’s Syndrome
Problems with your liver or kidneys, like:
- End-stage liver disease
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD) or chronic kidney failure
- End-stage kidney disease or renal disease, also called ESRD
Conditions that affect your digestion, like:
- Crohn’s disease
- Colitis
- Inflammatory polyps
Blood or bone marrow conditions, like:
- High cholesterol
- Aplastic anemia
- Hemophilia
- Sickle-cell disease (not including sickle-cell trait)
- Chronic venous thromboembolic disorder, a condition that causes blood clots
Conditions that affect your immune system, like:
- Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus)
- Polyarteritis nodosa, which affects your arteries
- Polymyalgia rheumatica, which causes muscle pain and stiffness
- Polymyositis, which weakens your muscles
- HIV/AIDS
Protein-calorie malnutrition
Health problems from not getting enough food to eat, especially protein foods like meat, fish, eggs, or beans
Brain or neurological conditions, like:
- Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Epilepsy or seizure disorder
- Paralysis in one or more of your limbs
- Huntington's disease
- Multiple sclerosis, or MS
- Parkinson's disease
- Polyneuropathy
- Spinal stenosis
- Neurologic problems related to a stroke
Mental or behavioral health conditions, like:
- Bipolar disorders
- Depression (major depressive disorder)
- Paranoid disorder
- Schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
- Alcohol or other drug dependence
*The Food & Home Card is a special supplemental benefit available only to chronically ill members with eligible chronic health conditions, like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart problems, and stroke. Other conditions may be eligible. All applicable eligibility requirements must be met before the benefit is provided. Not all members qualify. The Food & Home Card is not available on all plans. For D-SNP plans, you must receive "Extra Help" to qualify for the Food & Home Card.