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Understanding Health Care Spending Accounts (HCSAs)
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In Canada, Health Care Spending Accounts (HCSAs) have become a popular benefit offered by many employers. These accounts offer employees a flexible, tax-efficient way to manage health-related expenses such as dental, prescription drug and paramedical costs.
Let’s discuss what HCSAs are, how they work, and why they are a great addition to group benefit plans.
What is a Health Care Spending Account?
An HCSA is an employer-funded account that reimburses employees for eligible health and dental expenses that are not covered by either their provincial health insurance or private group benefit plans.
These HCSAs offer a high degree of flexibility and control over how health care money is spent, and are especially useful when it comes to covering expenses that are not 100% covered.
How Do Health Care Spending Accounts Work?
HCSA accounts are actually very simple. Each employee gets a pre-determined amount of money on an annual basis which can be spent on a wide range of eligible expenses, such as:
Prescription drugs
Dental care (e…
