Accept HSA, FSA & HRA cards

Healthcare MMCs and 90% Rule merchants can use Moov to accept healthcare benefit cards - HSA, FSA & HRA - issued on Visa and Mastercard networks.

Healthcare benefit cards (HSA, FSA, HRA) are debit or prepaid cards tied to tax-advantaged accounts that employees use to pay for qualified medical expenses. Each card type has different ownership and funding rules.

Card type Name Ownership Funding Regulation
HSA Health Savings Account Employee-owned Employee-funded IRS-regulated
FSA Flexible Spending Account Employer-owned Employee-funded IRS-regulated
HRA Health Reimbursement Arrangement Employer-owned Employer-funded IRS-regulated
HSA, FSA, and HRA card acceptance through Moov is available on Visa and Mastercard networks only.

Merchant types

There are two categories of merchants that can accept healthcare benefit cards through Moov: Healthcare MCCs (merchant category codes) and 90% rule merchants. Each category has different requirements, as described in the sections below.

Healthcare MCCs

Healthcare MCCs include doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and other healthcare providers whose primary merchant category code (MCC) is on the approved healthcare MCC list. Card issuers use auto-substantiation to approve FSA and HRA transactions at these MCCs, so no IIAS certification or SIGIS registration is required.

Accepted MCCs:

MCC Description
4119 Ambulance services
5975 Hearing aids — sales, service, and supply stores
5976 Orthopedic goods and prosthetic devices
7277 Counseling services — debt, marriage, and personal
8011 Doctors and physicians
8021 Dentists and orthodontists
8031 Osteopaths
8041 Chiropractors
8042 Optometrists and ophthalmologists
8043 Opticians, optical goods, and eyeglasses
8049 Podiatrists and chiropodists
8050 Nursing and personal care facilities
8062 Hospitals
8071 Medical and dental laboratories
8099 Health practitioners and medical services (not elsewhere classified)

90% rule merchants

90% rule merchants are pharmacies and drug stores that derive 90% or more of their gross receipts from prescription (Rx) drugs and eligible medical expenses. Only merchants with MCC 5912 (drug stores and pharmacies) or MCC 5122 (drugs, drug proprietors, and druggist sundries) qualify.

Requirements for 90% Rule Merchants:

  • Must have 90% or more of gross receipts from Rx and eligible medical expenses
  • Must register with SIGIS (Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards) and pay the required membership fees
  • Issuers maintain registered merchant lists; no auto-substantiation data is required in the transaction

Work with Moov to gather merchant identifiers required for registration:

Identifier Description
Mastercard Interbank Card Association (ICA) Number A unique identifier of four to six digits assigned by Mastercard to identify all member activity
Visa Bank Identification Number (BIN) A unique identifier of six to eight digits licensed by Visa to issuers
Mastercard Card Acceptor ID A unique, alphanumeric identifier issued by Mastercard, up to 15 characters, which specifies a merchant terminal or merchant location
Visa Card Acceptor ID A unique, alphanumeric identifier up to 15 characters, issued by Visa, which specifies a merchant terminal or merchant location
Merchant Category Code (MCC) The merchant category code
Merchant ID Moov account ID

Get started

To begin accepting HSA, FSA, and HRA cards through Moov:

  1. Contact Moov to enable healthcare card acceptance for your account
  2. Provide your MCC and merchant type (healthcare MCC merchant or 90% rule merchant)
  3. If you are a 90% rule merchant, complete your SIGIS registration before processing healthcare card transactions

Annual registration

90% rule merchants are required to re-register annually per store location. SIGIS supports annual, online re-registration.

Failure to complete re-registration within 120 days of the end of the 90% rule merchant's taxable year will result in SIGIS automatically removing the merchant's acquirer identifier and merchant store identifier ID from the 90% rule list published to issuer processors.

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