Medically Handicapped Children's Program

This Program provides access to specialty evaluations that provide a diagnosis and medical treatment plan prior to the family making a financial application. The evaluations may be provided with select specialty providers and/or one of the specialty clinics for children and youth.

Specialty clinics for children and youth are teams which consist of specialty physicians, nutritionists, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologist, dentists, speech and hearing pathologists, and the family. The teams meet all at one time and in one place. Team membership depends upon the particular medical conditions being reviewed. The most important member of the teams is the family. Teams provide diagnosis of the medical concerns and problems, a written plan of treatment, and access to all the team members at one time and place.

The Program can provide services for the following and other congenital and severe conditions:
The Program's medical director reviews the medical information and makes the eligibility decision.

• Asthma -- severe and persistent.

• Orthopedic conditions -- including scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis, club foot, bow legs, leg length discrepancy and fractures that have not healed properly and have become chronic conditions.

• Eye conditions -- which may be corrected through surgery.

• Hearing loss which is severe.

• Hemophilia

• Major medical -- A ‘catch all' term which includes many congenital and chronic conditions including: acute severe burns, neurological conditions, ill premature births, urology, Addison's disease,Turner's syndrome, sickle cell disease, hypothyroidism, esophageal strictures, imperforate anus, Hirschprungs, disease growth hormone deficiency, and other conditions.

• Neoplasm -- cancers, tumors, lymphoma and leukemia.

• Other conditions which may be severe and chronic and/or congenital.

Nebraska Department of
Health and Human Services
P.O. Box 95044
Lincoln , NE 68509 -5044
(402) 471-2306

Local Service Contacts
Broken Bow: (308) 872-6700
Grand Island : 1-800-892-7922, Local: (308) 385-6123
Gering: 1-800-477-6393, Local (308) 632-0380
Lincoln : 1-877-213-4754, Local (402) 471-5308 or 5379
Norfolk : 1-800-782-8844, Local (402) 370-3166 or 3131
North Platte : 1-800-782-8844, Local (308) 535-8238
Omaha : (402) 595-2120
Crete : 1-800-557-8511, Local (402) 826-2196