Sample Expenses Eligible For Spending Account Reimbursements
Medical, Dental, Vision Expenses
- Acupuncture
- Alcoholism treatment
- Ambulance hire
- Artificial teeth
- Birth control pills
- Braces
- Braille-books & magazines
- Chiropractors
- Christian Science Practitioners’ Fees
- Co-insurance amount you pay
- Co-pay amount you pay
- Contact lenses & eyeglasses plus eye examination
- Contact lens solution
- Cost of operations and related treatments
- Crutches
- Dental fees
- Drugs (by prescription) & medical supplies
- Handicapped persons’ special schools
- Hearing devices & batteries
- Home improvements necessitated by medical considerations
- Hospital bills
- Insulin
- Laboratory fees
- Lead-base paint removal (for children with lead poisoning)
- Massage Therapy (medically necessary)
- Menstrual care products, such as tampons and pads
- Mentally handicapped persons’ cost of special home therapy
- Nicotine patches and nicotine gum (with prescription)
- Obstetrical expenses
- Orthopedic shoes
- Over-the-counter medications
- Oxygen
- Physical fees
- Psychiatrists & Psychologists fees
- Radial Keratotomy and Lasik eye surgery
- Routine physical & other non-diagnostic services or treatments
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- Seeing-eye dog and maintenance
- Special education for the blind
- Special plumbing for the handicapped
- Sterilization (i.e., tubal ligation, vasectomy)
- Surgical fees
- Telephone, special services for the deaf
- Television audio display equipment for the deaf
- Therapeutic care for drug & alcohol addiction
- Therapy treatments
- Transportation expenses primarily in the rendering of medical services
- Tuition at special school for handicapped
- Vitamins (by prescription only)
- Weight loss program (if prescribed by Physician to treat existing disease)
- Wheelchair
- X-ray
Dependent Care Expenses
- Babysitters over the age of 19
- Daycare Centers
- Nursery Schools
- After-School Programs
- Day Camp
- Eldercare
Common Expenses Not Eligible for Reimbursement
- Cosmetic procedures
- Over the counter vitamins and dietary supplements (unless claimant provides a prescription from a physician)
- Gym and fitness club memberships
If you are unsure if an expense is eligible for
reimbursement, please call the Interactive Medical
Systems Flex Department at 919-877-9933 or 800-
426-8739. Business hours are Monday through Friday
8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST.
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