Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer and Leader McCarthy:

As Congress continues to consider additional measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic and its severe economic effects on American workers and families, we are writing today – on behalf of the nation’s largest providers of worksite employee health centers, and the employers who sponsor them – to respectfully request that you include a provision in any future legislation to facilitate access to such worksite health centers.

"Onsite Clinics", today called "worksite health and wellness centers", are more critical today than ever before, as employers work to reassure their employees that the workplace is safe, and to provide their employees with more widespread and easy access to preventive and primary care services, including vaccination and diagnostic testing services. Worksite health centers will serve as a critical node in the distribution of an eventual COVID-19 vaccine, and are working closely with government agencies to ensure an efficient, effective strategy is in place.

However, under current law, individual taxpayers may not contribute pre-tax dollars to a Health Savings Account (HSA) if they also receive certain supplemental health benefits – which currently includes access to care at a worksite health center – for free or below “fair market value.” Section 306 of the “Health, Economic Assistance, Liability and Schools Act” (HEALS Act) would help address this inequity by permitting individuals to both participate in primary care service arrangements offered at worksite employee centers and be eligible to participate in and provide pre-tax contributions to HSAs.

We urge you to include a provision similar to Section 306 in any stimulus or pandemic-response legislation considered by the Congress, and to make such a provision permanent or authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend it.

Worksite employee health centers are a key component of the war against COVID-19, keeping people out of emergency rooms, urgent care centers, and hospitals. These centers have evolved over time from simple triage and first aid centers, to comprehensive health centers offering preventive and primary care services - centers that millions of Americans count on as their medical homes. Eliminating the barriers to HSA beneficiaries will help employers continue to drive the positive trends for healthcare we are all working to achieve – better outcomes, more affordable care, and improved access.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely,