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 chronic health conditions — you may qualify.*

This page lists many of the most common conditions that qualify. If you don't see your condition listed below, or if you have other questions, 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)

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.