How would you explain why a patient meets the definition of special health care needs?
The condition qualifies when it requires medical management, health care intervention, or specialized services/programs.
- Includes physical, developmental, mental, sensory, behavioral, cognitive, or emotional differences or limiting conditions.
- May be congenital, developmental, or acquired through disease, trauma, or environmental causes.
- Impaired self-care or a major-life-activity limitation may occur but is not required in every case.