Quote Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster View Post
James I work with people who use condom caths as they lack bladder control (paraplegia and quadraplegia) and with people with the same disabilities who use foley caths every day to allow their bladder to completely empty to avoid further medical complications.

THOSE individuals are the reason that catheters are an allowable HSA expense. The regulations that allow them to be purchased as an allowable medical expense and the congressional intent behind the authorizing legislation was clearly not intended to allow James, Cave Diver, to save a few dollars cave diving.

To in any way try to capitalize on an FSA account and apply it to your diving related condom caths is insulting to people who have to use them for legitimate medical reasons and who use an FSA to offset disability related expenses.

I guess if there is an upside to this it's that you are only a DCS hit away from potentially having to use them for legitimate medical reasons....
Larry,

Had items that were medical related but strictly recreational been clearly marked allowed, I would have never asked, and I would 100% agree with you it's unethical to buy recreational items under a FSA account.

In your edit, you clearly avoid the condom and via.gra examples, but that's neither here nor there I suppose, since it's clear none of us participating in this thread can find any definition.