Don’t let your flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) go to waste this year. You can put those dollars toward prescription glasses, contact lenses, and eye exams at your nearest Heartland Vision.
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are both special accounts for healthcare expenses funded with pre-tax dollars. Employers may offer these programs to their employers, typically along with a traditional health plan.
**FSA grace period update**
At the end of 2020, a bill was signed into law that grants an extension of grace periods, allowing unused FSA money to carry over from 2020 into 2021, and from 2021 into 2022.
At the end of 2020, a bill was signed into law that grants an extension of grace periods, allowing unused FSA money to carry over from 2020 into 2021, and from 2021 into 2022.
 FSA Event or Deadline |  Key Dates |
|---|---|
| 2022 Benefit Period Begins | Jan. 1, 2022 |
| Last day to incur expenses using your 2022 HCFSA or LEX HCFSA | Dec. 31, 2022 |
| Last day to incur expenses using your 2022 DCFSA | Mar. 15, 2023 |
| Last day to submit all claims for the 2022 benefit period | Apr. 30, 2023 |
The statutory deadline for contributing to your HSA is the same deadline for filing your taxes for the same year (2022 HSA contribution deadline: April 15, 2023).
FSA and HSA funds can be used to pay for eligible medical expenses, including vision care. You can use your FSA and HSA money at Wisconsin Vision to cover out-of-pocket costs and copays for the following:
Eye Exams
Prescription Eyeglasses
Prescription Sunglasses
Prescription Contact Lenses
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Blue light lenses filter out blue light produced by phones, TVs, and computer monitors which have been proven to negatively affect sleep and cause eye strain. Therefore, blue light lenses have a proven medical benefit and application, and most providers will let you use your FSA or HSA funds to pay for them.
There is no limit to how many pairs of glasses you can purchase with your FSA. As long as you have enough money in your FSA to purchase a pair of glasses, you can.
You can only use your FSA for yourself and qualifying dependents. Eligible dependents include your spouse, your children (under 26 years old), and other dependents claimed on your tax return.
If you are buying contact lenses purely for cosmetic reasons, you cannot use your FSA funds. If the colored contact lenses have corrective properties to improve your vision, they will have been prescribed to you by a licensed doctor, making them eligible for FSA fund use.
You can use your flexible spending account to purchase prescription sunglasses. However, non-prescription sunglasses are not an eligible item.
Eyeglass frames are an eligible item to be purchased with FSA and HSA funds.
