Eye fun

[ghini]

Signed up today. I'm having Lasik done Thursday the 28th of this month. I could have had it done this Friday, but they require a followup in 24 hours, and someone dared to set their wedding for Saturday. So 7 more days of contacts, 3 days in glasses land, then hopefully normal eyes from then on.

Comments

[uglor.livejournal.com]

If you can put it off until January, you can pay for it with a 2007 FSA and save a good chunk of change.

[dankamongmen.livejournal.com]

I want to use my 2006 FSA, though -- but I think our semantics are merely dissonant. By "2007 FSA", do you mean "FSA whose contribution period ends in 2007?" If so, that's what I was planning to do -- I thought they were available by that time, and indeed only through March of 2007?

I sure hope I didn't fuck my FSA up, but HR certainly explained it to me this way -- money put into FSA medical accounts during 2006 was good for reimbursements through 2007-03.

Time to do the research for myself, blargh!

[uglor.livejournal.com]

Money put into your FSA in 2006 is good ONLY for procedures performed in 2006. You can file claims on the 2006 FSA through 03/07. So, if you have Lasik done on Dec 30th, you have until March 31st to file a claim.


So, if you have the cash in your 2006 FSA, do it now. If you don't, have it done in 2007 and claim it against your 2007 FSA.

[dankamongmen.livejournal.com]

excellent, that is exactly as I had understood things. in that case, I should have just about 2.2k available as of late december for laser eye extravaganzae and all is well in the world.

until my eyes fall out 10 years later!

[dankamongmen.livejournal.com]

well, not exactly, but quite literally close enough for government work :)

[uglor.livejournal.com]

You don't need to wait until you have the money in your FSA to get reimbursed. For example, if I reserve $1000 a month for my 2007 FSA, in January I can sumbit a claim for $10,000 and get all of it.

[dankamongmen.livejournal.com]

surely you get brutally fucked in the case of sudden downward salary adjustments, though. a risky gamble. or contrariwise?