Qualifying for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)
Participants must meet Medicaid financial eligibility as well as medical disability criteria in order to be eligible for Developmental Disability (DD) services. To meet medical disability criteria, your disability must be diagnosed:
– A chronic condition
– Before the age of twenty-two (22)
– Caused by impairments such as intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or another condition found to be closely related to, or similar to one of these impairments that requires similar treatment or services; or be caused by dyslexia resulting from one or more of the above described impairments; and
– Substantially limit your ability to function in at least three (3) of the following major life activities;
- Self-care
- Receptive and expressive language
- Learning
- Mobility
- Self-direction
- Capacity of independent living
- Economic self-sufficiency
– Reflect the need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment or other services
– Require services which are of lifelong or extended duration
– Require services that must be individually planned and coordinated
