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Do you qualify for the Food & Home Card?
Some of our plans offer the Food & Home card only if you have certain health conditions (check your What to Know About Your Plan booklet). If that’s your plan — and you have a condition listed below — you 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