Hot Home-Delivered Meals provide one meal per day with a nutritional content equal to 33 1/3 percent of the Dietary Reference Intakes established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The meals must comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and with the Division of Aging, Adult and Behavioral Health Services (DAABHS) Nutrition Services Program Policy Number 206.

Hot Home-Delivered Meal services provide one daily nutritious meal to eligible participants who are homebound. Homebound is defined as a person with normal inability to leave home without assistance (physical or mental) from another person; a person who is frail, homebound by reason of illness or incapacitating disability or otherwise isolated; or for whom leaving home requires considerable and taxing effort by the participant and absences from the home are infrequent, relatively short in duration or are attributable to the need to receive medical treatment.

Additionally, the participant must:

The provision of a Home-Delivered Meal is the most cost-effective method of ensuring a nutritiously adequate meal.

The Home-Delivered Meals provider must maintain a log sheet signed by the participant that includes date and time of delivery each time a meal is delivered to document receipt of the meal.

Hot Home-Delivered Meals must be provided according to the participant's written ARChoices PCSP.