Flexible Spending Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) allow you to contribute - through payroll deduction on a pre-tax basis - to a health care account to reimburse eligible health care expenses incurred for yourself and your qualifying dependents and/or dependent care spending account to reimburse eligible dependent care expenses incurred for your qualifying dependents (does not include dependent's care expenses). You must request reimbursement from your accounts for eligible expenses as outlined by the IRS.
FSA General Information
- Benefit Summary - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
- FSA Worksheets to help you calculate your expenses (.pdf)
- FSA Election Form (.pdf)
- Flexible Spending Accounts – Specific Plan Details (.pdf)
- Effective Date - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
- Termination of Enrollment - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
- FSA Processing Calendar (.pdf)
- Orthodontia Reimbursement (.pdf)
- Benefit Administrator - The Ohio State University
Verify Your Current Account Balance
To verify your current account balance, sign-in at FSA Online (This link takes you to a secure sign-in page. You will need your OSU name.# and password to sign-in. Then click on the link to the full listing of eligible and ineligible health care expenses.)
Health Care FSA
- Full listing of eligible and ineligible health care expenses. (This link takes you to a secure sign-in page. You will need your OSU name.# and password to sign-in. Then click on the link to the full listing of eligible and ineligible health care expenses.)
- FSA Health Care Request for Reimbursement (.pdf)
Dependent Care FSA
- IRS publication 503, a full listing of qualified dependent care expenses.
- FSA Dependent Care Request for Reimbursement (.pdf)
Flexible Spending Account FAQs are available here.
If you are unsure whether or not you are eligible for this benefit, go to Benefit Eligibility.
