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Health Care Alert: Navigating Health Care Reform (September 22, 2010)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Affordable Care Act”) added a new Section 106(f) to the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). Under Section 106(f), a new uniform standard applies to health flexible spending accounts (“health FSAs”) and health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”). Under the new standard, the cost of an over-the-counter medicine or drug cannot be reimbursed from the account unless a prescription is obtained.
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