WageWorks Teams Up with FSAStore.com to Give Participants a Simple and Trouble-Free Way to Purchase FSA-Eligible Items

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WageWorks, Inc., a leading on-demand provider of tax-advantaged programs for consumer-directed health and other employee spending account benefits, has contracted with FSAStore.com to give its nearly 1.8 million users a simple and direct way to purchase Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)-eligible items.

"There are many places where our participants can purchase FSA-eligible products but FSAStore.com offers a level of convenience and simplicity not found anywhere else," said Joe Jackson, CEO of WageWorks. "We are pleased to offer our participants a place where they can use their HSAs and their FSAs with confidence knowing that everything at FSAStore.com is FSA-eligible."

The new relationship will give WageWorks' participants direct access to FSAStore.com, and its hundreds of FSA-eligible items, through a customized shopping portal. It also will eliminate much of the paper and guesswork involved with participation in a pretax health benefit. Services like FSAStore.com simplify the shopping experience by making it easy for FSA participants to distinguish between what is eligible with or without a prescription. If an item does require a prescription, FSA participants must submit proper documentation prior to the sale, which will eliminate the after-transaction verification process.

"WageWorks' leadership was quick to see the unique value of our service and was eager to offer it to their FSA and HSA accountholders," said Jeremy Miller, FSAStore.com founder and president. "We are excited to partner with WageWorks, and to roll out new site enhancements that continue to make it simple and convenient for participants to use their FSA/HSA."

The 2011 law that requires a prescription for the reimbursement of Over-the-Counter (OTC) drugs from a pretax benefits account makes the unique services offered by FSAStore.com even more valuable to participants. With its ability to obtain OTC prescriptions directly from participants' physicians, FSAStore.com removes one of the most common barriers created by this new regulation and offers a simple and direct path to purchase.