Health Home Chronic Conditions
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Health Home Program Chronic Condition Update with Developmental Disabilities Conditions
It has always been the intent of the NYS Health Home Program to eventually expand the Health Home model to include intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD). As such, with the implementation of the Care Coordination Organization/Health Home (CCO/HH) model, the Health Home Chronic Conditions have been expanded to include the following category of I/DD chronic conditions:
Health Home Chronic Conditions – Developmental Disabilities
- Intellectual Disability
- Cerebral Palsy
- Epilepsy
- Neurological Impairment
- Familial Dysautonomia
- Prader–Willi Syndrome
- Autism
Please note: The term Autism includes all diagnoses within Autism Spectrum Disorder. The term Neurological Impairment refers to a disease or disorder that results in a neurological impairment or degeneration that affects the integrity of the individual’s musculature and central nervous system. Examples of potentially qualifying neurological impairments include, but are not limited to, Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and traumatic brain injury. Additionally, the individual’s developmental disability diagnosis must be in the Developmental Disabilities category, originate before the age of twenty– two and be expected to continue indefinitely to qualify as a Developmental Disabilities diagnosis.
The chart below outlines the list of allowable chronic conditions for the Health Home Serving Children and Adults programs. For the Health Home Serving Children and Adults, program eligibility will continue to require two or more chronic conditions, or one single qualifying chronic condition of HIV/AIDS or Serious Mental Illness (SMI) (Adults) or Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) or Complex Trauma (Children).
Please reference the posted July 2018 guidance for enrollment in the CCO/HH versus the Health Home Serving Adults or Children
Specific Distinctions:
For an individual with developmental disabilities to be eligible for Health Home Serving Children or Adults, the individual can have one or moreof the developmental disabilities within the Developmental Disability category listed above but MUST also have one or moreof the other diagnoses included on the Health Home Serving Children and Adults chronic conditions list.
If the individual has one or more of the developmental disabilities within the Developmental Disability category list above but does not have other diagnoses included on the Health Home Serving Children and Adults chronic conditions list, then the individual should be referred to OPWDD and/or CCO/HH.
"Developmental Language Disorder" and "Developmental Delay NOS / NEC / Mixed" are now added to the Health Home Serving Children and Adults chronic conditions list below as they are not represented in the Developmental Disabilities category.
Therefore, an individual could have Developmental Language Disorder and/or Developmental Delay NOS / NEC / Mixed, and one of the developmental disabilities within the Developmental Disability category listed above to be eligible for Health Home Serving Children and Adults.
The condition of Epilepsy remains on the Health Home Serving Children and Adults chronic conditions list as well as within the Developmental Disabilities category, as Epilepsy is not specific to Developmental Disabilities. Therefore, an individual can be eligible for Health Home Serving Children and Adults if they have Epilepsy and another developmental disability within the Developmental Disability category.
Developmental Disabilities and/or Health Home Serving Children and Adults chronic condition lists do not include any developmental disorder of scholastic skill or motor function.
| Health Home Serving Children and Adults Chronic Conditions |
| Acquired Hemiplegia and Diplegia |
| Acquired Paraplegia |
| Acquired Quadriplegia |
| Acute Lymphoid Leukemia w/wo Remission |
| Acute Non–Lymphoid Leukemia w/wo Remission |
| Alcoholic Liver Disease |
| Alcoholic Polyneuropathy |
| Alzheimer´s Disease and Other Dementias |
| Angina and Ischemic Heart Disease |
| Anomalies of Kidney or Urinary Tract |
| Apert´s Syndrome |
| Aplastic Anemia/Red Blood Cell Aplasia |
| Ascites and Portal Hypertension |
| Asthma |
| Atrial Fibrillation |
| Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder |
| Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia |
| Bi–Polar Disorder |
| Blind Loop and Short Bowel Syndrome |
| Blindness or Vision Loss |
| Bone Malignancy |
| Bone Transplant Status |
| Brain and Central Nervous System Malignancies |
| Breast Malignancy |
| Burns – Extreme |
| Cardiac Device Status |
| Cardiac Dysrhythmia and Conduction Disorders |
| Cardiomyopathy |
| Cardiovascular Diagnoses requiring ongoing evaluation and treatment |
| Cataracts |
| Cerebrovascular Disease w or w/o Infarction or Intracranial Hemorrhage |
| Chromosomal Anomalies |
| Chronic Alcohol Abuse and Dependency |
| Chronic Bronchitis |
| Chronic Disorders of Arteries and Veins |
| Chronic Ear Diagnoses except Hearing Loss |
| Chronic Endocrine, Nutritional, Fluid, Electrolyte and Immune Diagnoses |
| Chronic Eye Diagnoses |
| Chronic Gastrointestinal Diagnoses |
| Chronic Genitourinary Diagnoses |
| Chronic Gynecological Diagnoses |
| Chronic Hearing Loss |
| Chronic Hematological and Immune Diagnoses |
| Chronic Infections Except Tuberculosis |
| Chronic Joint and Musculoskeletal Diagnoses |
| Chronic Lymphoid Leukemia w/wo Remission |
| Chronic Metabolic and Endocrine Diagnoses |
| Chronic Neuromuscular and Other Neurological Diagnoses |
| Chronic Neuromuscular and Other Neurological Diagnoses |
| Chronic Non–Lymphoid Leukemia w/wo Remission |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Bronchiectasis |
| Chronic Pain |
| Chronic Pancreatic and/or Liver Disorders (Including Chronic Viral Hepatitis) |
| Chronic Pulmonary Diagnoses |
| Chronic Renal Failure |
| Chronic Skin Ulcer |
| Chronic Stress and Anxiety Diagnoses |
| Chronic Thyroid Disease |
| Chronic Ulcers |
| Cirrhosis of the Liver |
| Cleft Lip and/or Palate |
| Coagulation Disorders |
| Cocaine Abuse |
| Colon Malignancy |
| Complex Cyanotic and Major Cardiac Septal Anomalies |
| Conduct, Impulse Control, and Other Disruptive Behavior Disorders |
| Congestive Heart Failure |
| Connective Tissue Disease and Vasculitis |
| Coronary Atherosclerosis |
| Coronary Graft Atherosclerosis |
| Crystal Arthropathy |
| Curvature or Anomaly of the Spine |
| Cystic Fibrosis |
| Defibrillator Status |
| Dementing Disease |
| Depression |
| Depressive and Other Psychoses |
| Developmental Language Disorder |
| Developmental Delay NOS / NEC / Mixed |
| Diabetes w/wo Complications |
| Digestive Malignancy |
| Disc Disease and Other Chronic Back Diagnoses w/wo Myelopathy |
| Diverticulitis |
| Drug Abuse Related Diagnoses |
| Ear, Nose, and Throat Malignancies |
| Eating Disorder |
| Endometriosis and Other Significant Chronic Gynecological Diagnoses |
| Enterostomy Status |
| Epilepsy |
| Esophageal Malignancy |
| Extrapyramidal Diagnoses |
| Extreme Prematurity – Birthweight NOS |
| Fitting Artificial Arm or Leg |
| Gait Abnormalities |
| Gallbladder Disease |
| Gastrointestinal Anomalies |
| Gastrostomy Status |
| Genitourinary Malignancy |
| Genitourinary Stoma Status |
| Glaucoma |
| Gynecological Malignancies |
| Hemophilia Factor VIII/IX |
| History of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft |
| History of Hip Fracture Age > 64 Years |
| History of Major Spinal Procedure |
| History of Transient Ischemic Attack |
| HIV Disease |
| Hodgkin´s Lymphoma |
| Hydrocephalus, Encephalopathy, and Other Brain Anomalies |
| Hyperlipidemia |
| Hypertension |
| Hyperthyroid Disease |
| Immune and Leukocyte Disorders |
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Intestinal Stoma Status |
| Joint Replacement |
| Kaposi´s Sarcoma |
| Kidney Malignancy |
| Leg Varicosities with Ulcers or Inflammation |
| Liver Malignancy |
| Lung Malignancy |
| Macular Degeneration |
| Major Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract |
| Major Congenital Bone, Cartilage, and Muscle Diagnoses |
| Major Congenital Heart Diagnoses Except Valvular |
| Major Liver Disease except Alcoholic |
| Major Organ Transplant Status |
| Major Personality Disorders |
| Major Respiratory Anomalies |
| Malfunction Coronary Bypass Graft |
| Malignancy NOS/NEC |
| Mechanical Complication of Cardiac Devices, Implants and Grafts |
| Melanoma |
| Migraine |
| Multiple Myeloma w/wo Remission |
| Multiple Sclerosis and Other Progressive Neurological Diagnoses |
| Neoplasm of Uncertain Behavior |
| Nephritis |
| Neurodegenerative Diagnoses Except Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson´s |
| Neurofibromatosis |
| Neurogenic Bladder |
| Neurologic Neglect Syndrome |
| Neutropenia and Agranulocytosis |
| Non–Hodgkin´s Lymphoma |
| Obesity (BMI at or above 25 for adults and BMI at or above the 85 th percentile for children) |
| Opioid Abuse |
| Osteoarthritis |
| Osteoporosis |
| Other Chronic Ear, Nose, and Throat Diagnoses |
| Other Malignancies |
| Pancreatic Malignancy |
| Pelvis, Hip, and Femur Deformities |
| Peripheral Nerve Diagnoses |
| Peripheral Vascular Disease |
| Persistent Vegetative State |
| Phenylketonuria |
| Pituitary and Metabolic Diagnoses |
| Plasma Protein Malignancy |
| Post–Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| Postural and Other Major Spinal Anomalies |
| Prematurity – Birthweight < 1000 Grams |
| Progressive Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Muscular Atrophy |
| Prostate Disease and Benign Neoplasms – Male |
| Prostate Malignancy |
| Psoriasis |
| Psychiatric Disease (except Schizophrenia) |
| Pulmonary Hypertension |
| Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections |
| Reduction and Other Major Brain Anomalies |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Schizophrenia |
| Secondary Malignancy |
| Secondary Tuberculosis |
| Sickle Cell Anemia |
| Significant Amputation w/wo Bone Disease |
| Significant Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Diagnoses |
| Spina Bifida w/wo Hydrocephalus |
| Spinal Stenosis |
| Spondyloarthropathy and Other Inflammatory Arthropathies |
| Stomach Malignancy |
| Tracheostomy Status |
| Valvular Disorders |
| Vasculitis |
| Ventricular Shunt Status |
| Vesicostomy Status |
| Vesicoureteral Reflux |
Should there be questions surrounding a specific condition and Health Home eligibility, please contact NYS DOH Health Home team at HHSC@Health.ny.gov
October 2018, updated 2/19, 4/19
