University Hospitals

UH offers two health care flexible spending accounts – Consumer Select Health Care FSA and the Traditional Health Care FSA. Availability is based on your medical plan election. You can also participate in a Dependent Care FSA.

You can take advantage of tax savings available from a health care flexible spending account and a dependent care flexible spending account.

How the Accounts Work

Estimate how much you will need to set aside in an FSA to cover your health care or dependent care expenses. Generally, you can set aside between $130 and $5,000 a year in an FSA.
The amount you choose is deducted from each pay. For example, if you decide to set aside $650 for the entire calendar year and you are paid bi-weekly, $25 will be deducted from each paycheck on a pre-tax basis.

You use your account toward eligible expenses you have during the plan year.

For the health care FSA, you have a choice of automatic reimbursement or a debit card to pay expenses. You make this choice when you enroll in the account.
For a dependent care FSA, you file claims for reimbursement of eligible expenses.
To learn more about auto reimbursement, click here.

Important Rules

To be eligible for reimbursement, the expense must be incurred on or before December 31.
Carefully estimate the amount you will set aside in an FSA. According to IRS guidelines, any money left in an FSA on December 31 will be forfeited.
You must submit claims for reimbursement no later than March 31 of the following year.

Retain all itemized receipts and documentation. CONEXIS or UH may request that you submit your receipts to prove expenses are eligible. If you do not submit documentation when requested, the expense may be designated as ineligible and you will have to repay the amount to the plan.

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How the Accounts Work
Important Rules

New Administrator
for 2012

CONEXIS will administer the flexible spending accounts beginning January 1, 2012. The way the FSAs work is not changing. In 2011, Anthem partnered with CONEXIS to administer the FSAs. For 2012, UH will partner directly with CONEXIS.

Employees who enroll in a flexible spending account under the debit card option for 2012 will receive a new debit card from CONEXIS. You will also have a new web site to access your account in 2012.

As a result of the change to CONEXIS, if you are currently enrolled in an FSA in 2011 and re-enroll for 2012, you will need to navigate two different web sites to access your accounts depending on the account year:

For 2011 account access, go here or call 866-599-3061. (You will use this contact information through March 31, 2012, which is the last day to submit claims for the 2011 FSA plan year.)
For 2012 plan year account access, go here or call
866-279-8385.