Health Spending Account

Other Eligible Expenses

Medical Equipment Expense

oxygen tent or other equipment necessary to administer oxygen for medical purposes
iron lung (or chest respirator)
artificial kidney machine
rocking bed for poliomyelitis victim

Prescribed Device and Equipment Expense

The following items are eligible if they are prescribed by a medical practitioner to treat an illness or injury and not described elsewhere in this plan. Note that all items marked with an asterisk (*), must be prescribed by a medical practitioner.

(a) * A wig made to order for an individual who has suffered abnormal hair loss because of disease, medical treatment or accident.
(b) * A needle or syringe designed to be used for the purpose of giving an injection.
(c) * A device or equipment, including replacement parts, designed exclusively for use by an individual suffering from a severe chronic respiratory ailment or a severe chronic immune system disregulation, but not including an air conditioner, humidifier, dehumidifier, heat pump or heat or air exchanger.
(c.1) * An air or water purifier for use by an individual who is suffering from a severe chronic respiratory ailment or a severe chronic immune system disregulation to cope with or overcome that ailment or disregulation.
(c.2) * An electric or sealed combustion furnace acquired to replace a furnace that is neither an electric furnace or a sealed combustion furnace, when the replacement is necessary solely because of an individual's severe chronic respiratory ailment or a severe chronic immune system disregulation.
(d) * A device or equipment designed to pace or monitor the heart of an individual who suffers from heart disease.
(e) * An orthopaedic shoe or boot or an insert for a shoe or boot, made to order for an individual in accordance with a prescription, to overcome a physical disability.
(f) * A power-operated guided chair installation, for an individual, that is designed to be used solely in a stairway.
(g) * A mechanical device or equipment designed to assist an individual to enter or leave a bathtub or shower, or to get on or off a toilet.
(h) * A hospital bed, including attachments to the bed prescribed for the patient.
(i) * A device designed to assist an individual in walking, when the individual has a mobility impairment.
(j) * An external breast prosthesis that is required because of a mastectomy.
(k) * A teletypewriter or similar device, including a telephone ringing indicator, that enables an individual who is deaf or mute person to make and receive telephone calls. (This will include visual ringing indicators such as flashing lights, as well as acoustic couplers, and teletypewriters providing either printed or visual display screen communications. The individual may be required to provide a certificate from a medical practitioner to establish that such equipment was obtained to mitigate the effects of a hearing or speech disability. Additional equipment and accessories provided to others in order to make telephone communication possible with those other persons ant the individual who is deaf or mute may also qualify.)
(l) * An optical scanner or similar device designed to be used by an individual who is blind to read print.
(m) * A power-operated lift or transportation equipment designed exclusively for use by, or for, an individual who is disabled to allow the individual access to different areas of a building or to assist the individual to gain access to a vehicle or to place the individual's wheelchair in or on a vehicle.
(n) * device designed exclusively to enable an individual with a mobility impairment to operate a vehicle
(o) * device or equipment, including a synthetic speech system, Braille printer, large print-on-screen device, designed exclusively for use by an individual who is blind, in operating a computer
(p) * electronic speech synthesizer that enable an individual who is mute to communicate using a portable keyboard device to decode special television signals to permit the script of a program to be visually displayed
(q) A device to decode special television signals to permit the script of a program to be visually displayed.
(q.1) * A visual or vibratory signalling device, including a visual fire alarm indicator, for an individual who has a hearing impairment.
(r) * A device designed to be attached to an infant diagnosed as being prone to sudden infant death syndrome in order to sound an alarm if the infant ceases to breathe.
(s) An infusion pump, including disposable peripheral, used in the treatment of diabetes or a device designed to enable an individual with diabetes to measure blood sugar level.
(t) * electronic or computerized environmental control systems designed exclusively for the use of an individual with severe and prolonged-mobility restrictions
(u) * extremity pumps or elastic support hose designed exclusively to reduce swelling caused by chronic lymphedema
(v) * inductive coupling osteogenesi stimulator for treating non-union of fractures or aiding in bone fusion