{"id":20495,"date":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resource-center.hrblock.com\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:36:21","slug":"which-medical-expenses-can-i-deduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrbcomlnp.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/filing\/adjustments-and-deductions\/which-medical-expenses-can-i-deduct\/","title":{"rendered":"I am itemizing my tax return.  Which medical expenses can I deduct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When itemizing your medical expenses, the medical expenses you can deduct include:<\/p>\n<p>For the treatment of a disease:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>Curing<\/li>\n<li>Easing<\/li>\n<li>Treatment<\/li>\n<li>Prevention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If one of those applies, you can also include the associated costs for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equipment<\/li>\n<li>Supplies<\/li>\n<li>Diagnostic services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The expenses must be primarily to improve or prevent a physical or mental deficiency or illness.<\/p>\n<p>Deductible medical expenses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acupuncture<\/li>\n<li>Alcoholism treatment<\/li>\n<li>Ambulance service<\/li>\n<li>Annual physicals<\/li>\n<li>Bandages<\/li>\n<li>Birth control<\/li>\n<li>Body scan<\/li>\n<li>Braces<\/li>\n<li>Braille books and magazines for the visually impaired<\/li>\n<li>Breast pumps and supplies<\/li>\n<li>Chiropractic care<\/li>\n<li>Christian Science practitioner care<\/li>\n<li>Contact lenses and the supplies required to maintain them<\/li>\n<li>Necessary dental treatment (doesn&#8217;t include whitening)<\/li>\n<li>Diagnostic devices (Ex: blood sugar test kit for a diabetic)<\/li>\n<li>Drug addiction treatment<\/li>\n<li>Prescribed medications<\/li>\n<li>Eye doctor<\/li>\n<li>Eye glasses<\/li>\n<li>Eye surgery<\/li>\n<li>Fertility enhancement<\/li>\n<li>Guide dog or other service animal<\/li>\n<li>Hearing aids<\/li>\n<li>Home care<\/li>\n<li>Insulin<\/li>\n<li>Insurance premiums<\/li>\n<li>Lab fees<\/li>\n<li>Lead-based paint removal (not repainting)<\/li>\n<li>Certain Medicare A, B, and, D<\/li>\n<li>Nursing home or services<\/li>\n<li>Oxygen<\/li>\n<li>Physical or occupational therapy<\/li>\n<li>Prosthesis<\/li>\n<li>Psychiatric care<\/li>\n<li>Psychologist<\/li>\n<li>Sex-reassignment surgery and related hormone therapy for the treatment of gender-identity disorder disease<\/li>\n<li>Sterilization<\/li>\n<li>Smoking cessation programs except over-the-counter nicotine gums and patches<\/li>\n<li>Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Transplants<\/li>\n<li>Transportation to obtain medical care<\/li>\n<li>X-rays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When itemizing your medical expenses, the medical expenses you can deduct include: For the treatment of a disease: Diagnosis Curing Easing Treatment Prevention If one of those applies, you can also include the associated costs for: Equipment Supplies Diagnostic services The expenses must be primarily to improve or prevent a physical or mental deficiency or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjustments-and-deductions","category-filing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Which Medical Expenses Can I Deduct? | H&amp;R Block<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn which medical expenses are tax deductible with advice from the tax experts at H&amp;R Block.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hrbcomlnp.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/filing\/adjustments-and-deductions\/which-medical-expenses-can-i-deduct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I am itemizing my tax return. 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