Is an Air Purifier a Medical Necessity? Use Your HSA Card
Clean air is vital for everyone’s health, but certain individuals are more at risk than others. Babies, people with respiratory conditions like asthma or bronchitis, and those with allergies can suffer immensely from breathing in polluted air. In fact, millions of people die every year due to air pollution.
But there’s at least one piece of good news: You can control the air quality in your home with a reliable purifier, and you might even be able to use your HSA/FSA card to pay for it.
How Can You Use Your HSA Card for Your Air Purifier?
Getting your Sans air purifier at a reduced cost is easy!
Sans works with Truemed, which unlocks both health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account funds for its customers. By using an HSA or FSA through Truemed, you can obtainall you need is a letter of medical necessity (LMN) to purchase or get reimbursed for your Sans air purifier, potentially saving approximately 33% in the process.
An HSA account allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for qualified medical expenses. An FSA card is similar. It’s a debit card that holds pre-tax money to pay for qualified medical expenses.
There are a couple of distinctions, though. The difference is that HSA accounts can have higher contribution limits, and you might also be able to carry funds forward. FSAs, on the other hand, have lower contribution limits and don’t typically allow you to carry over your funds.
What is a Letter of Medical Necessity?
Truemed makes the process easy by generating a letter of medical necessity for you. Basically, this letter explains why/how a Sans Air Purifier will help to address your symptoms or prevent your condition from getting worse. This is a formal document that must be issued and signed by a licensed healthcare provider.
How Does it Work?
Ready to pay with an HSA or FSA account?
When you’re preparing to check out, you’ll see this below the “Add to Cart” button:
If you click on “Learn more,” you’ll first be asked to confirm your identity, and then, you’ll be able to select Truemed as a payment option so that you can purchase your air purifier with your HSA or FSA card.
Do I Qualify?
There are no limitations to qualifying. All you need to do is complete a short survey. But to give you a better idea of what types of health conditions sometimes necessitate an air purifier, consider the following:
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Emphysema
- Sleep disorders like sleep apnea
- Allergies
- Sinusitis
- Lung cancer
- Disorders of the immune system
All of these conditions can be seriously impacted by air pollution, affecting your quality of life.
An air purifier also helps if you’re dealing with mold or smoke exposure. However, in these cases, we encourage you to address the issue at the source. If there’s mold in your home, it needs to be located and removed. Mold sickness is nothing to dismiss. In addition, residents should avoid smoking inside, and be mindful of cooking practices that produce a lot of smoke.
Other things that might be polluting your home air quality toxic cleaning products, furniture/carpeting made with certain chemicals, and dust.
Why is an Air Purifier a Medical Necessity?
Polluted air — which we’re breathing in all day, every day — can trigger concerning health problems.
For example, air quality affects your sleep. Allergens can cause your airways to become inflamed, irritated, and dry. Over time, this can cause serious damage to your respiratory system.
Do you have pets? Pet allergies might be triggered by fur, dander, and saliva. If your pets sleep in your bed, you’re exposed to those allergens for hours on end. Don’t forget, too, that they bring in even more germs and bacteria after they’ve spent time outside.
If you live in an area prone to wildfires, you might experience respiratory irritation and shortness of breath. Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, and problems with cognitive functioning. Keeping your doors and windows closed can help, but smoke will still manage to find its way inside.
Even burning candles can affect air quality. When you burn candles made of paraffin wax, they release benzene and toluene into the air. These are the same toxins created by diesel fuel fumes. Both are known carcinogens, which means they can cause cancer. (To be safe, switch to candles made with soy or bees wax. You can even make your own!)
If you’re pregnant, take note: Air pollution can hurt your baby, contributing to a pre-term birth, low birth weight, fertility issues, asthma, and even autism.
We’re barely scratching the surface. Other common indoor air pollutants might be impacting your health right this minute — pollutants like asbestos, lead, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, radon, pesticides, nitrogen dioxide, and indoor particulate matter.
Choose the Right Air Purifier
Not all air purifiers are made equally. Look for one that is designed with a medical-grade HEPA 13 filter. This is the most powerful and effective type of air filter. UV-C light helps, as well, because it neutralizes viruses and bacteria so that they can’t grow on the filters and make you sick.
Clean air is vital to not just your lung health but also your cognitive functioning and so much more. One of the best ways to reduce allergens in your home and keep yourself and your family safe and healthy is to let an air purifier do some of the heavy lifting for you.