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Flexible Spending Account Providers Fighting to Protect Benefits

Payflex and other companies that administer flexible spending accounts, which are used to pay for health care expenses, have reason to worry.

August 3, 2009

Payflex Systems, an employee benefits company in Omaha, Neb., never saw much use for hiring a federal lobbyist. That is, until Congress started sniffing around Payflex's business to help defray the costs of health care reform legislation. Read more...

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