Benefits

Medical Expenses That Can Be Reimbursed Under The Medical Expense Spending Account

The following is a partial list of eligible medical expenses. Consult IRS Publication 502 for additional information.

• Abortion (legal)
• Acupuncture
• Adoption (medical costs of adopted child)
• Air conditioner (allergy relief)
• Alcoholism, treatment of
• Ambulance hire
• Attendant to accompany blind student
• Blindness, special educational aids to mitigate condition
• Braille books and magazines, excess cost of regular editions
• Capital expenditure (primary purpose medical care)
• Car (equipped to accommodate wheelchair passengers)
• Car (handicap controls)
• Chiropractors
• Christian Science treatment
• Co-insurance amounts you pay
• Computer data bank, storage & retrieval of personal medical records
• Contact lenses
• Contraceptives, prescription
• Crutches
• Deaf persons (hearing aids)
• Deaf persons (lip-reading expenses)
• Deaf persons (note taker, deaf student)
• Deaf persons (telephone, specially equipped)
• Deaf persons (television, closed-caption decoder)
• Deaf persons (visual alert system)
• Deductibles for medical plans
• Dental fees
• Diagnostic fees
• Diapers, disposable, used due to severe neurological disease
• Doctors
• Domestic aid, type that would be rendered by nurse
• Drug addiction, recovery from
• Drug addiction, recovery from
• Drugs, prescription
• Dyslexia, language training
• Elevator, alleviation of cardiac condition
• Eye examinations and glasses
• Fluoride device
• Glasses
• Guide animals, cost and maintenance
• Halfway house, adjust to community after staying in mental hospital
• Hearing Aids (see Deaf persons)
• Hospital care, in-patient
• Hospital services
• Insulin
• Iron lung
• Laboratory fees
• Lead Paint, removal of
• Legal expenses (authorization of treatment for mental illness)
• Lifetime medical care, prepaid
• Limbs, artificial
• Lodging, limited to $50 per night
• Mattress, prescribed alleviation of arthritis
• Nurses’ fees, including board if pay by taxpayer
• Nursing home, medical reasons
• Obstetrical Expenses
• Operations (legal)
• Orthodontia
• Orthopedic shoes, excess cost
• Osteopaths
• Over-the-counter medicine
• Oxygen equipment, breathing
• Patterning exercises, handicapped child
• Plumbing, special fixtures for handicapped
• Psychiatric care
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Retirement home, life care
• Sanitarium rest home, cost of, medical, or rehabilitative reasons
• Schools, special, relief of handicap
• Sexual dysfunction, hospitalization for
• Taxicab to doctor’s office
• Teeth, artificial
• Telephone, specially equipped for the deaf
• Television, closed caption decoder
• Transplant, donor’s costs of
• Transportation, cost incurred and primarily for medical care
• Vasectomy
• Vitamins, prescribed
• Wheel chair
• X-rays