Some of us named our children this name and they are frequently referred to this way. Poor Assa’s indeed.
Lemme check how we spell it on our sequel server.
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HSAs are waf btw.
The way you know you hit white collar privilege is when you stick your future cancer treatments in a bunch of TSLA.
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In a prior job when I was typing HSA a lot I had to go in and remove it from the auto correct for my sanity. Haven’t had to do that in a while because I don’t deal with HSA’s currently.
I use it as a spending account, but try to put more in than I plan on spending. Not that I’ve ever been good at predicting large medical expenses (except for babies I guess).
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And to continue the tangent, I laughed the first time someone said “Akka” instead of spelling A-C-A. I hadn’t ever heard it before, and it made me laugh because it sounded silly. Now I’ve heard it a bunch of times, but I still remember the first time.
Wondering at one point should I give a shit.
Well, if you had stuck it in crypto, like I told you, your nurse would be cleaning up that shit.
I’ve got un-reimbursed receipts in boxes somewhere, but I’d be hard-pressed to come up with all the receipts if the IRS called. But I do have a spreadsheet keeping track of what I paid and when and I hope that would be sufficient proof. Maybe not?
I pay using an HSA credit card, so don’t really keep receipts. Tied to by Fidelity account, so they must have some record
But not sure if they would know I got a pack of gum with my prescriptions at CVS
When I get a receipt from the pharmacy, it denotes certain items as “FSA eligible” on the receipt. Not sure if their system tells my HSA card people that all items are eligible or not. I have never tried to use it for more than prescriptions.
Oddly, the card never worked at my old eye doctor’s office.
Once I used it at my pharmacy when I was buying a prescription medication and also had a soda with me they offered to ring up at the same time. I used my HSA card, not thinking about it, just instinct, and then it left a balance of $2 it didn’t cover.
Not sure if all pharmacy systems are as tech savvy.
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Nope. It’s more of a working class thing.
I am pretty sure I have accidentally charged a non-eligible item
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I make a habit of paying cash for some things (chiropractic visits, some prescriptions, etc.) so if I’m ever audited and they decide something wasn’t allowed I have some other expenses and it won’t mess me up.
I can get out of pocket expenses from my health insurance co, and I have my chiropractor give me an annual summary of what I have paid them.
Ours is a savings account for the most part (before this year, the last time I reimbursed was 2017 for a cash flow issue). I scan all our receipts, and have a spreadsheet tracker that ties to the scanned receipts.
My company switched its HSA provider and I decided to check out the withdrawal system, so I chose several tiny (under $10) expenses from the tracker to be reimbursed. Uploaded the receipts and made the withdrawals. the system for doing both of those things was tedious. I don’t expect to reimburse anything else for a long time.
Also, I say the letters, not hissa, and I try to remember to use the mouse to click out of a cell when typing it in Excel to avoid the spell check. I understand changing hsa to has, but HSA is capitalized, why the eff does Microsoft change it, urgh.
I also use a limited purpose FSA (dental/vision only) every year so that I can pay for the never ending dental work my family seems to have without paying taxes on it.
Our HSA provider doesn’t ask for receipts. It’s a little hassle to pay providers at least initially from their website just because you need to enter all the info and their website doesn’t make it as easy as it should be. However, it is trivial to reimburse yourself. Select that you want to reimburse yourself, enter the amount, click the button verifying that those are eligible expenses, done.
I wonder if the receipts are actually a requirement to reimburse… probably not, and it was just me liking to tie things together up front.
It was still a hassle to do because the website doesn’t allow you to type in the date of service (which was a required field), so I had to use the clicky box every time, and since I was doing several small ones to take them off my list of future reimbursements, it was increasingly frustrating.
I don’t save receipts, but my HSA site has a link to my health insurer, so they just have a list of every claim I might want to reimburse for, so I think if I ever do need the quick cash flow I should be able to do it easily.