My employer has a flexible spending account they offer. Has anyone used one to pay for vitamins, calcium, or even protein shakes after having bariatric surgery?

If this is an option anyone with an employer offered FSA could probably save several hundred to even a few thousand dollars a year

I do not think vitamins qualify. you can check your employer roster of what is acceptable. But I believe anything over the counter will need to be a script in order for it to be eligible.

29 minutes ago, Jazzy1125 said:

I do not think Vitamins qualify. you can check your employer roster of what is acceptable. But I believe anything over the counter will need to be a script in order for it to be eligible.

They don't neither do protein shakes. However bariatric surgery changes things up quite a bit, as our surgeries were deemed medically necessary, and the whole post op nutrition thing is murked up a bit. So I wonder what things people have had luck with.

Also I was under the impression that everything in an FSAs eligibility (unless you have a limitited or dependent plan) is determined by the federal government, it's only managed by the employer.

If your FSA has a debit option you can just take the money out and buy the nutrition items that way. Just at the end of the year you have to tell the govt on your taxes that all of the money was for medical purposes.

I have payed twice with my FSA card at kaiser..they have approved purchases.