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How to use your HSA to save on YouFit gym membership costs

If exercise treats your medical condition, learn how an online consultation may help you unlock HSA/FSA funds to save up to 40% off YouFit gym membership!

| By Jacqueline Raposo
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How to use your HSA/FSA to save on BODi subscriptions and the BODi Bike

Want to feel good while saving up to 40% on BODi? Learn how Dr. B can help qualifying patients unlock their HSA and FSA funds with a $15 online consultation.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
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What you should know about taxes and medical deductions

Learn how to deduct medical costs from your taxes, why being single costs more with time and how reading glasses can boost income. Plus, stress-relieving tips!

| By Jacqueline Raposo
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What is a Letter of Medical Necessity?

Understand how the HSA reimbursement process works. Plus, learn how qualifying patients can get a Letter of Medical Necessity online with a $15 consultation.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
Color photograph of a white male F45 personal trainer kneeling down to assist F45 gym members who lay on the floor, raising barbell weights above them. Photo courtesy F45.

How to use your HSA/FSA at F45 Training

Think exercise might help you prevent or treat a medical condition? Learn how you may be able to save on F45 Training costs with your HSA or FSA account.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
An Orangetheory class where a young Black female instructor kneels instructing a young white female member who is lifting two weights.

How to use your HSA at Orangetheory

Here’s how to use your pre-tax HSA/FSA funds to save up to 40% off Orangetheory class fees—so you can pump it up and work it off!

| By Jacqueline Raposo
A celebratory photo of a SoulCycle class with a group of riders cheering and confetti flying through the air. Photo courtesy of SoulCycle.

How to use your HSA/FSA at SoulCycle

Here’s how Dr. B is working to help make the process of getting a Letter of Medical Necessity more convenient for qualifying patients.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
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What can you buy with HSA funds?

Here's how Health Savings Accounts (HSA) can help you save on qualified medical expenses. Plus, a surprising list of things you can buy with HSA funds.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
A child's hands old up a clear piggy bank with a few dollars in at against a blurry background of a bed and chair.

The best ways to improve your physical and financial health

Trying to get in the green? This week, we share how to fight medical bills, when you can use HSA/FSA funds for fitness fees and more.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
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How much does Paxlovid cost in 2024?

Why is Paxlovid so expensive now? Here’s what to know about the cost of Paxlovid with or without insurance and how to get Covid-19 treatment online.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
A curvy Black woman wearing gym clothes and a hair wrap and a muscular white woman wearing gym clothes stand close together, laughing, resting against a well of a gym.

Can I use my FSA/HSA for gym membership?

Using exercise to prevent or reverse an illness? Here's how to get a Letter of Medical Necessity online to use your HSA/FSA dollars for fitness fees.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
Different types of pills, Tablets in packs, and blister packs with colorful medicines are set on a pink background, with the fingers of a white hand picking one up.

Using a Drug Discount Card — How It Works

Dr. B offers the cheapest telehealth. The next step? Finding the lowest prescription price. Here’s how drug discount cards work and how to use them.

| By Jacqueline Raposo
Young brunette woman sitting on the couch in their living room at home, with a 6-year old kid on her lap. She's on the phone doing a consultation with a doctor. The woman is checking the child’s temperature on a thermometer.

The best drug discount card: SingleCare vs. GoodRx

Pharmacy savings cards can help you save up to 80% of prescription costs. But is SingleCare or GoodRx is the best drug discount card for you?

| By Jacqueline Raposo

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