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80 Medical Expenses That Can be Itemized on Your Taxes

May 26, 2015 by Elizabeth Bennett Colegrove Leave a Comment

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Do you have medical expenses? Do you itemize your taxes? Do you own a home?

While one usually doesn’t have a lot of “great” things to say about the IRS, they do give some pretty awesome legal ways to deduct expenses.

The IRS provides two methods: Standard Deduction or Itemization

Standardization is where you are allow to take a certain deduction based on if you are married, single, widowed, head of household OR married filing as single. This is a standard amount and is predetermined based on your status. There is no wiggle room here.

Itemization is where you are able to deduct items off the your taxes either at cost or at the amount predetermined by the IRS.

Medical Expenses

For more information you can find the IRS explanation here.

Did you know that owning a home has another benefit?

While there are people in the world that have enough items to deduct off of the IRS list of allowed deductions without a home most people need the interest and tax deduction of a owning a home to make itemizing worth it. This is one more reason as  discussed on our tax article series where owning a home is very beneficial for your taxes.

Here is a list of all the allowed tax deduction on the IRS found here

What people don’t realize is that you can take medical expenses above 10% AGI (adjust gross income).

While for many of us our bills after insurance payment (no double dipping) is not high enough. Those who have chronic illness or family member does then this could be a great tax deduction.

Here are the 80 medical tax deductions that the IRS allows:

  1. Acupuncture
  2. Alcoholism
  3. Ambulance
  4. Annual Physical Examination
  5. Artificial Limb
  6. Artificial Teeth
  7. Bandages
  8. Birth Control Pills
  9. Body Scan
  10. Braille Books and Magazines
  11. Breast Pumps and Supplies
  12. Breast Reconstruction Surgery
  13. Capital Expenses
  14. Car
  15. Chiropractor
  16. Christian Science Practitioner
  17. Contact Lenses
  18. Crutches
  19. Dental Treatment
  20. Diagnostic Devices
  21. Disabled Dependent Care Expenses
  22. Drug Addiction
  23. Drugs
  24. Eye Exam
  25. Eyeglasses
  26. Eye Surgery
  27. Fertility Enhancement
  28. Founder’s Fee
  29. Guide Dog or Other Service Animal
  30. Health Institute
  31. Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
  32. Hearing Aids
  33. Home Care
  34. Home Improvements
  35. Hospital Services
  36. Insurance Premiums
  37. Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled, Special Home for
  38. Laboratory Fees
  39. Lactation Expenses
  40. Lead-Based Paint Removal
  41. Learning Disability
  42. Legal Fees
  43. Lifetime Care—Advance Payments
  44. Lodging
  45. Long-Term Care
  46. Meals
  47. Medical Conferences
  48. Medical Information Plan
  49. Medicines
  50. Nursing Home
  51. Nursing Services
  52. Operations
  53. Optometrist
  54. Organ Donors
  55. Osteopath
  56. Oxygen
  57. Physical Examination
  58. Pregnancy Test Kit
  59. Prosthesis
  60. Psychiatric Care
  61. Psychoanalysis
  62. Psychologist
  63. Reproductive Services
  64. Special Education
  65. Sterilization
  66. Stop-Smoking Programs
  67. Surgery
  68. Telephone
  69. Television
  70. Therapy
  71. Transplants
  72. Transportation
  73. Trips
  74. Tuition
  75. Vasectomy
  76. Vision Correction Surgery
  77. Weight-Loss Program
  78. Wheelchair
  79. Wig
  80. X-ray

While there are always strings attached, the biggest key is that these have to be out of pocket expenses. They don’t let you double dip from expenses that your insurance has always covered.

Having a medical condition can be expensive. So don’t miss out on the help that the IRS does offer.

What has your experience been? Do you deduct your medical expenses? Have they affected your taxes?

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