{"id":24236,"date":"2025-04-09T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24236"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:38:03","slug":"the-cumulative-effect-of-long-term-hsa-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24236","title":{"rendered":"The cumulative effect of long-term HSA ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Funded health savings accounts, meaning the account has a balance greater than $0, have an average balance of $2,415. However, according to Devenir, an investment solutions provider, those HSAs opened before 2024 have benefited from long-term HSA ownership. The average balance for an account opened in 2014 was $8,745, and for those opened in 2004, the average balance was $29,869. Allison Bell reports how rising contributions push the average HSA balance over $3,800. To read Ms. Bell\u2019s article for Benefits Pro, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2025\/04\/08\/rising-contributions-push-average-hsa-balance-over-3800\/?slreturn=20250409140502\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2025\/04\/08\/rising-contributions-push-average-hsa-balance-over-3800\/?slreturn=20250409140502\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"wp-image-8394\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funded health savings accounts, meaning the account has a balance greater than $0, have an average balance of $2,415. However,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[238,538],"class_list":["post-24236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-hras","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hsas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}