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- Can our health FSA ever reimburse expenses for procedures that improve an individual's appearance, and if so, when?
- From the October 04, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Can our company’s health FSA ever reimburse expenses for procedures that improve an individual’s appearance (e.g., teeth whitening or hair transplants)? I know there is a special rule prohibiting reimbursement for cosmetic procedures, but ...
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- What are an employer's reporting obligations for HSA contributions?
- From the September 27, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: This year, our company added an HDHP and HSA option to the employee benefits that we offer and we have been making employer contributions to our eligible employees’ HSAs. What are our company’s reporting obligations for ...
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- Must an employer verify an employee's eligibility for an HSA?
- From the September 06, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has an HDHP and contributes to eligible employees’ HSAs. Must our company verify each employee’s HSA eligibility before it contributes to his or her HSA? ANSWER: No. An employer that contributes to its employees&#...
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- Can our company match employees' pre-tax HSA contributions under our cafeteria plan?
- From the July 05, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Under our company’s cafeteria plan, participants can make pre-tax salary reduction contributions to their HSAs if they are HSA eligible. Can our company make matching contributions based on a percentage of participants’ HSA pre-tax ...
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- May an employer contribute more to non-HCEs' HSAs than it contributes to HCEs' HSAs?
- From the June 07, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company makes contributions outside of a cafeteria plan to its eligible employees’ HSAs. We have heard that new comparability rules would allow the company to contribute more to non-highly compensated employees’ HSAs than to highly ...
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- If different employees have different balances in their HRAs, would the HRA violate HIPAA's nondiscrimination rules?
- From the May 10, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: For several years our company has had an HRA with an annual maximum reimbursement amount of $1,500 for each eligible employee and a carryover feature. Different employees have had different amounts of reimbursable expenses and now have different ...
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- Can we pay a deceased employee's unused HRA balance to his widow?
- From the May 03, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company sponsors a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) that reimburses qualifying medical expenses incurred by eligible employees and their spouses or covered tax dependents. One of our employees just died, leaving a rather sizable unused HRA balance. Can we ...
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- Can our health FSA reimburse vitamins, and if so, under what circumstances?
- From the March 01, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Several of our company’s health FSA participants have asked whether vitamins qualify for reimbursement. What should I tell them? ANSWER: The answer depends on whether the vitamins are being taken for general health or for a specific ...
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- Can we provide discount cards for prescription drugs to our employees without making them ineligible for HSA contributions?
- From the February 22, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company sponsors a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) and contributes to the HSAs of our employees who participate in the HDHP. Our HDHP provider is going to be offering discount cards that would allow participants to obtain discounts ...
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- Where can our health FSA participants use electronic payment cards to pay for medical care expenses?
- From the February 01, 2007 EBIA Weekly
- Please see the updated Question of the Week. ...
