HSA Qualified Expenses
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Maximize Your HSA: Make sure you use every HSA qualified expense you are eligible for - dont forget over-the-counter meds with a prescription, eyeglasses and contacts, and expenses for alternative care like homeopathy or chiropractor visits. And to make sure you stay in the best HSA insurance plan for your needs, compare rates with competing plans at least once a year.
HSA Qualified Expenses List
- Acupuncture
- Alcoholism - treatment
- Ambulance - hire
- Autoette or Wheelchair
- Birth Control Pills
- Blind Persons Services
- Braces
- Capital Expenditures - home modifications for handicapped - primary purpose must be medical care
- Car Equipment - to accommodate wheelchair and/or handicapped controls
- Childbirth Preparation Classes - mother
- Chiropractors
- Christian Science Treatment
- Contact Lenses - replacement insurance
- Crutches
- Deaf Persons - hearing aid and batteries, hearing aid animal and care, lip reading expenses, special education, modified telephone
- Dental Fees
- Dentures
- Diagnostic Fees
- Diapers (adult disposable) - used due to severe neurological disease
- Doctor's Fees
- Domestic Aid - rendered by a nurse
- Drug Addiction Recovery
- Drugs - prescription or over-the-counter *
- Dyslexia Language Training
- Elevator for Alleviation of Cardiac Condition
- Eyeglasses and Examination Fees
- Fluoride Device - on advice of a dentist
- Halfway House - adjustment to mental hospital
- Healing Services Fees
- Health Maintenance Organizations
- Hearing Aids
- Hospital Care
- Insulin
- Laboratory Fees
- Laetrile - by prescription
- Lazer eye surgery
- Lead Paint Removal
- Legal Expenses - authorizing treatment of mental illness
- Lifetime Medical Care - prepaid; retirement home
- Limbs - artificial
- Lodging (treatment related, and with restrictions, up to $50 per person)
- Mattress - prescribed for alleviation of arthritis
- Medical conference fees (relating to chronic illness; no lodging or meals)
- Medicare Parts A and B
- Membership Fees - association furnishing medical services, hospitalization, and clinical care
- Nursing Home - medical reasons
- Nursing Services - board and Social Security paid by taxpayers
- Obstetrical Expenses
- Operations - legal
- Optometrists
- Orthodontia
- Orthopedic Shoes - excess costs
- Oxygen / Oxygen Equipment
- Prosthesis
- Psychiatric Care
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Reclining Chair - for cardiac patients
- Remedial Reading
- Retarded Person - costs for special home
- Retirement Home lifetime medical care
- Sanitarium Rest Home - medical, educational, rehabilitative services
- Schools - special, relief, or handicapped
- Sexual Dysfunction Treatment
- Sterilization
- Surgical Fees
- Swimming Pool - treatment of polio or arthritis
- Teeth - artificial
- Television - closed-caption decoder
- Therapy Treatments - prescribed by a physician
- Transportation - essentially and primarily for medical care
- Weight Loss Programs - as a treatment for the disease of obesity
- Wheelchair or Autoette
- X-rays
- Mileage
- Stop smoking programs
- Vasectomy
- Vision correction
- Stop-smoking programs
* Note: Over-the-counter drugs are no longer considered qualified expenses unless prescribed by a doctor.
See a list of Non-qualifying HSA Expenses
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