RE: CONEXIS FSA Admin for University of California employees 3/19/2010: SUMMARY CONCLUSION: I would say that if you work for the UC, then you better START CALLING YOUR CAMPUS BENEFITS OFFICE TO COMPLAIN as it sure smells like they are having corporate cash flow problems from what I've experienced and they are holding a lot of our money which we may never see again. I am having similar concerns as the COMMENT POSTED ABOVE about CONEXIS who administers the University of California FSA employee accounts. It almost seems like they are having CASH FLOW PROBLEMS which is scary given that they get the payroll deductions automatically and up-front. I hope they are not going bankrupt. :-{ MY EXPERIENCES: Most recently, I have submitted four claims to them for reimbursement going back over 30 days now for the 2009 year and the current, 2010, year. According to CONEXIS, two claims I submitted last February (2010), via mail, in two separate USPS mailings on different days; well, they say they have NO RECORD of them when I followed-up with them. Obviously I don't have "proof" that I mailed them. So I FAXed them a letter with my distress and copies of the claims I had previously USPS mailed them. It has been a couple weeks now since they received my FAX, yet they have NOT been processed/paid/rejected/acknowledged in anyway. Even more curious is that they requested documentation for some of my 2010 benefit card charges (VISA), which I FAXed to them in early March, and they were accepted within 3 days. It is curious to note than when documentation is sent to substantiate charges they have already paid via VISA, those get processed in a reasonable time, and maybe because they do not have to send you new money. However, for the claims reimbursement requests that would require them to physically send money directly to the customer, those now take weeks/months to process assuming they don't somehow disappear from their radar. This may be an action of convenience on their part. I can't help but wonder. I have about $750 in 2009 claims pending. If they can hold me off until 4/15/2010, then by law they can keep my money. A couple of other 2010 reimbursement claims I mailed about 10 days apart have not been processed either. One dates back to March 1st of 2010 (~20 days ago). I'm suspecting they may be in the process of losing those claims, too. Yikes! The last reimbursement I got from them was 2/22/2010 for 2009 charges I incurred and submitted a claim to them on 2/2/2010. 20 days, but it got processed eventually. The last four claims I've submitted however, NOTHING! I've started keeping a confirmation report of the FAXes I've resorted to in the last week or so to give my complaint more credence than mailing documents to them via USPS. I think I'm going to contact my local campus benefits office to see if they have any insights into what CONEXIS might be up to and call them on it. Regarding your complaint about blocking your benefit card, this same thing happened to me. Once they send you a request for documentation notice, they are very quick to block your card just a few weeks later if you don't immediately respond. Last year I tried to use my card for a co-pay and the charge was denied. When I called CONEXIS then and there to inquire as to why, the gentleman told me it was because of a 'request for documentation' notice several weeks prior. However, I was adamant that I had sent in what they requested and he was able to access and check something in their database tied to my account which showed the documentation I had sent them (apparently they scan everything into an image database). He acknowledged that the documentation was received, but for some reason "it never was processed" He could not explain why YIKES! I asked him to take the hold of my card so I could use it to pay my co-pay, but he said "I'm not authorized to do that" and he would need to send this other department a request. I asked him for him to call me when it was fixed, but he said he wasn't allowed to make "outgoing calls". Yikes again. CONEXIS messes up but there is no phone call telling you when it gets fixed, NO apology, NOTHING. About 2 days letter, I checked my account online and they had processed the documents they had and reinstated my card 'privileges'. Given all this, I would say that if you work for the UC, then you better START CALLING YOUR CAMPUS BENEFITS OFFICE TO COMPLAIN as it sure smells like they are having cash flow problems from what I've experienced and they are holding a lot of our money which we may never see again. Sad, but maybe true. I just hope I have sufficient time, before 4/15/2010, to get their attention which I think I know how to do. I'll let readers know here what the outcome is.