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Flexible Benefits | List of Eligible Expenses

Flexible Benefits — Eligible Expenses

Medical Expenses Eligible for Reimbursement

• Acupuncture
• Alcoholism Treatment
• Ambulance
• Artificial limbs
• Artificial teeth
• Braces
• Braille-books and magazines
• Care for mentally handicapped child
• Chiropractors
• Christian Science practitioner's fees
• Contact lenses and solutions
• Copayments
• Cost of operation and related treatments
• Costs for physical or mental illness confinement
• Crutches
• Deductibles
• Dental fees
• Dentures
• Diagnostic fees
• Drug and medical supplies (i.e. syringes, needles, etc.) prescribed by a physician
• Eyeglasses, including examination fees
• Fee for practical nurse
• Fee for healing services
• Fees of licensed osteopaths
• Hair transplants as a result of a medical condition
• Handicapped person's special schools
• Hearing devices and batteries
• Home improvements necessitated by medical conditions
• Hospital bills
• Insulin
• Laboratory fees
• Laetrile by prescription
• Lead base paint removal from walls to prevent lead poisoning
• Life fee to retirement home for medical care
• Medical information plan
• Membership fees in associations furnishing medical services, hospitalization and clinical care
• Mentally handicapped persons' cost of special home
• Nurses' fees (including nurses' board and Social Security where paid by taxpayer)
• Obstetrical expenses
• Operations
• Orthodontia
• Orthopedic shoes
• Oxygen
• Physician fees
• Physician recommended swimming pool or spa equipment costs and maintenance
• Prescribed medicines (including vitamins and contraceptives)
• Psychiatric care
• Psychologist's fees
• Routine physicals and other non-diagnostic services or treatments
• Seeing-eye dog and its upkeep
• Special communications equipment for the deaf
• Special education for the blind
• Special plumbing for the handicapped
• Surgical fees
• Therapeutics for drug and alcohol addiction
• Therapy treatments
• Transportation expenses primarily for rendering of medical service (i.e. railroad to hospital or to recuperation home, cab fare in obstetrical cases)
• Tuition at special school for handicapped
• Tuition fee (part), if college or private school furnishes breakdown of medical charges
• Wheelchair
• Wigs required as a result of a medical condition
• X-rays

Dependent Care Expense Qualifications

The dependent being cared for must be claimed on your tax return and a child under the age of 13; or a child, spouse, or other dependent who is physically or mentally incapable of self-care and spends at least 8 hours a day in your household. Eligible expenses include:

• Babysitters or companions
• Daycare centers that meet state & local regulations if they provide care for more than 6 non-resident people
• Preschool through kindergarten
• If person providing care is NOT: (1) Claimed as a dependent on your or your spouse's tax return; (2) Your child/stepchild under age 19 at the end of the plan year; (3) Your spouse
• Expenses claimed must be to allow both you and your spouse (unless spouse is a full-time student or disabled) to work or look for work. Volunteer work does NOT qualify.
• Transportation costs of getting a qualifying person from your home to the care location and back, or from the care location to school and back is NOT considered an eligible expense.

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