The expense types listed in the table below are eligible when using our Health Spending Account. Please ensure you read all the details on each expense type to determine the eligibility requirements and other conditions that may apply (prescription, certification, Form T2201).
Depending on the type of expense you may require to verify that your service provider is authorized. For the full list of authorized medical practitioners please follow this link.
Medical Expense |
Acoustic coupler |
Air conditioner |
Air filter, cleaner, or purifier |
Altered auditory feedback devices |
Ambulance service |
Animals |
Artificial eye or limb |
Assisted breathing devices |
Attendant care expenses |
Audible signal devices |
Baby breathing monitor |
Bathroom aids |
Bliss symbol boards |
Blood coagulation monitors |
Bone conduction receiver |
Bone marrow transplant |
Braces for a limb |
Braille note-taker devices |
Braille printers, synthetic speech systems, large print-on-screen devices |
Breast prosthesis |
Cancer treatment |
Catheters, catheter trays, tubing or other products |
Certificates |
Chair |
Cochlear |
Computer peripherals |
Cosmetic surgery after March 4, 2010 |
Cosmetic surgery before March 5, 2010 |
Crutches |
Deaf-blind intervening services |
Dental services |
Dentures and dental implants |
Devices or software |
Diapers or disposable briefs |
Doctor - see Medical services provides by qualified medical practitioners |
Driveway access |
Drugs and medical devices bought under Health Canada’s Special Access Program |
Elastic support hose |
Electrolysis |
Electronic bone healing devices |
Electronic speech synthesizers |
Electrotherapy devices |
Environment control system (computerized or electronic) |
Extremity pump |
Fertility-related procedures |
Furnace |
Gluten-free products |
Group home - see Attendant care or care in a facility |
Hearing aids |
Heart monitoring devices |
Hospital bed |
Hospital services |
Ileostomy and colostomy pads |
In vitro fertility program |
Infusion pump |
Injection pen (such as an insulin pen) |
Insulin or substitutes |
Kidney machine |
Laboratory procedures or services |
Large print-on-screen devices |
Laryngeal speaking aids |
Laser eye surgery |
Lift or transportation equipment (power-operated) |
Liver extract injections |
Medical marihuana |
Medical services provided by qualified medical practitioners |
Medical services provided outside Canada |
Moving expenses |
Needles and syringes |
Note-taking services |
Nurse |
Nursing home - see Attendant care or care in a facility |
Optical scanners |
Organ transplant |
Orthodontic work |
Orthopedic shoes, boots, and inserts |
Osteogenesis stimulator (inductive coupling) |
Oxygen and oxygen tent |
Oxygen concentrator |
Pacemakers |
Page-turner devices |
Personalized therapy plan |
Phototherapy equipment |
Premiums paid to private health services plans |
Pre-natal and post-natal treatments |
Prescription drugs and medications |
Pressure pulse therapy devices |
Reading services |
Real-time captioning |
Rehabilitative therapy |
Renovation or construction expenses |
Respite care expenses - see Attendant care or care in a facility |
School for persons with an impairment in physical or mental functions |
Scooter |
Sign-language interpretation services |
Spinal brace |
Standing devices |
Talking textbooks |
Teletypewriters |
Television closed caption decoders |
Tests |
Therapy |
Training |
Travel expenses (at least 40 km) |
Travel expenses (at least 80 km) |
Travel expenses (outside of Canada) |
Treatment centre |
Truss for hernia |
Tutoring services |
Vaccines |
Van |
Vehicle modification |
Vision devices |
Visual or vibratory signaling device |
Vitamin B12 |
Voice recognition software |
Volume control feature (additional) |
Walking aids |
Water filter, cleaner, or purifier |
Wheelchairs and wheelchair carriers |
Whirlpool bath treatments |
Wigs |