[fatnoah]

I've also had to do something similar to "forge" supporting documentation for medical claims. In order to claim FSA money, I had to provide detailed invoices. My hospital, however, was a big Kafka fan. They would only provide invoices that had a date and an amount, and those would take about 8 months to arrive. In order to get a detailed invoice, you had to call...but the catch is that detailed invoices were no longer available after 6 months. After every service, I'd have to immediately call for the detailed version, but if there were any after-the-fact adjustments due to insurance, I'd never be able to get a detailed statement.

To remedy this, I'd doctor previous invoices, and then print, scan, and fax to hide any editing artifacts. Keep in mind, this is all to get my own money that I'd contributed to the FSA. After that year, I just stopped using the FSA because it was such a pain.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Wow what a pain in the ass.

The last FSA I had was the exact opposite. They put my FSA on a Visa card, then I went to the optometrist and forgot to use it and paid on my own credit card. A week later, I got a check in the mail from my FSA with a note basically saying "Hey, you could have used your FSA for that, so here's an automatic reimbursement."

EDIT: It may have been an HSA, not an FSA. I don't remember.

[fatnoah]

Oh, that's the best part. I did have the Visa, but for whatever reason they hospital never coded things properly, so I had to fall back to the manual reimbursement.

[notreallyserio]

How did the FSA operator (or whatever they are called) know about the transaction, and so quickly?

[fatnoah]

Since it's on a card issued by the FSA provider (I also don't know the correct word), they see the transactions in real time. Data that accompanies the transaction lets them know that it's reimbursable medical care.