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3. Eligible medical expenses.__"Eligible medical expenses"
means expenses paid by or on behalf of an account holder for
medical care that is described in the Code, Section 213(d).
"Eligible medical expenses" includes health insurance premiums
and deductibles.

 
4.__Household.__"Household" means the taxpayer, the taxpayer's
spouse and any member of the taxpayer's household for whom the
taxpayer is entitled to claim an exemption as a dependent under
Part 8.

 
5.__Individual medical savings account.__"Individual medical
savings account" or "account" means a trust created or organized
to pay eligible medical expenses.

 
§6603.__Establishment and procedures

 
Individual medical savings accounts may be established subject
to the following procedures.

 
1.__Health insurance coverage.__Before establishing an
individual medical savings account, the prospective account
holder must obtain or have health insurance coverage.

 
2. Account establishment.__A resident may establish an
individual medical savings account for taxable years beginning
after December 31, 1999.__The account must be established as a
trust under the laws of this State and must be placed with an
account administrator.__At the time of establishment, the account
administrator shall notify the account holder of potential
federal income tax liability that may be associated with the
account.

 
3.__Payment of eligible medical expenses.__The account
administrator may use the funds in an account solely to pay
eligible medical expenses of the account holder and members of
the account holder's household who are not otherwise covered
under the account holder's existing medical coverage. Funds held
in an account may not be used to cover medical expenses of the
account holder or members of the account holder's household who
are otherwise covered by, including, but not limited to, medical
expenses covered pursuant to an automobile insurance policy,
workers' compensation insurance policy or self-insured plan.__ If
the account holder submits appropriate documentation to the
account administrator, the account administrator may reimburse
the account holder from account funds for eligible medical
expenses paid directly by the account holder during the taxable
year.


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