L-HRA – Reading glasses

This is my last year (last month essentially) that I will have a HRA (which frankly I hate) before switching back to a HSA where I can self manage my reimbursements without jumping through hoops.

I'm having a terrible time getting my provider (Benefit Wallet) to process my reimbursements for reading glasses. It doesn't help that I'm in a foreign country (I provided verbatim translations for everything).

They keep denying the claims for a bunch of seemingly random reasons (all opaque reason codes — including their own admitted processing errors), but the one that comes up the most is that they require a doctor's prescription for the reading glasses.

Naturally I don't have one, nor do I believe it is a requirement, but I'm having difficulty finding the exact IRS publication to quote.

Question: Do reading glasses require a doctor's prescription to be HRA eligible? Is so, is there a publication #?

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