Flex Spending Account

[Skippyak]

FOr sure, but if it is fitness equipment, and that is allowable, why not a bike? If people pay for treadmills they use to hang clothes on or gym memberships to places they never enter, why not?.

[Irulan]

...only with prescriptions. And it's a pretty sleazy doc that's going to write a prescription for fitness equipment.

[OakLeaf]

...only with prescriptions. And it's a pretty sleazy doc that's going to write a prescription for fitness equipment.

If it is "primarily to alleviate or prevent a physical or mental defect or illness," as the IRS requires, why is that sleazy?

[Irulan]

Well, ok,.... maybe I'm being harsh but I'm thinking of the person who would be," hey, write me a scrip so I can buy a bike" vs someone who is chronically ill that needs/uses a treadmill for rehab.

[Skippyak]

...only with prescriptions. And it's a pretty sleazy doc that's going to write a prescription for fitness equipment.

That right, because their job is just to write out anti depressant prescriptions and refer to their fave bariatric guy. Define sleazy? Sunglasses are OK but a bike is not? It is a strange world for sure.