South Dakota’s health home program offers enhanced health care services to Medicaid recipients with chronic conditions like asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, obesity, substance use disorder, mental health conditions, pre-diabetes, tobacco use, cancer, hypercholesterolemia, depression, and musculoskeletal and neck/back disorders.

Keeping You Healthy

• Teaching you how to take care of yourself and make healthy choices.
• Helping you schedule screenings and appointments when you need them.
• Making sure you get the care you need to keep you from getting sick.

Planning Your Care

• Focusing health care on you as a whole person.
• Setting goals for your health needs and making a plan for when and how you receive care.
• Building a team to help you meet your health goals.
• Providing referrals to other providers or specialists.

Supporting You & Your Family

• Working with you, doctors, nurses, counselors, hospitals and other to make sure you get the care you need.
• Explaining tests and results to you to make sure you understand everything about your health.
• Making sure you don’t go back to the hospital or ER after you leave.

Connecting Your Care

• Working with you and your family or caregiver to make sure you can focus on your health.
• Helping you get other services you need in your community

For more information, view the Health Home Brochure. For a list of providers, view Health Home Provider List.

As a health home recipient, you are required to receive non-emergent services from your Health Home Provider (HHP). You are also required to have a referral from your HPP for non-emergent specialty and hospital services. You can receive certain services called Health Home Exempt Services from other providers without a referral from your HPP.

Health Home recipients have the right to say no to the Health Home Program. If recipients do not wish to participate should submit the the Decline to participate form.

For additional questions, please contact Medical Services at 605.773.3495 or Medical@state.sd.us.