Retailers Accepting Healthcare Payment Cards

Beginning 1/1/08, if you use your healthcare payment card at a supermarket, grocery store, department store or wholesale club, the store must be compliant with an IRS-required inventory control regulations, called IIAS (Inventory Information Approval System). IIAS compliant stores automatically check to ensure items purchased with a healthcare payment card are qualified healthcare account expenses, reducing the need to submit receipts or worry about rejected claims.

• Pharmacies will continue to accept healthcare payment cards until 1/1/09. After this date, pharmacies will also be required to comply with IIAS in order to continue to accept healthcare payment cards.
  
  
• Doctor and dentist offices, vision centers and hospitals will continue to accept healthcare payment cards with no requirement to comply with IIAS however, receipts must still be submitted. The reason for this is that you could purchase non-compliant items such as vitamins from your doctor's office.

IIAS Compliant Stores

Below is a link to a list of certified merchants and their planned implementation dates. NOTE: This is a list of merchants intending to implement the SIGIS IIAS standard. The expected live dates shown have been provided by the merchants and may be subject to change. This list will be continually updated as additional merchants are certified and live dates change. Check back often!

Click here for a list of IIAS Compliant Stores - Updated as of: September 3, 2008