- Birth control pills prescribed by
your doctor
- Capital expenses for equipment or
improvements to your home needed for medical care. (See
Publication 502)
- Cost and care of guide dogs or other
animals aiding the blind, deaf or disabled.
- Cost of lead-based paint removal
(See Publication 502)
- Expenses of an organ donor.
- Hospital services fees (lab work,
therapy, nursing services, surgery, etc.)
- Legal abortion
- Legal operation to prevent having
children.
- Meals and lodging provided by a
hospital during medical treatment.
- Medical and hospital insurance
premiums (See Pub 17 for details.)
- Medical services fees (from doctors,
dentists, surgeons, specialists, and other medical practitioners.)
- Oxygen equipment and oxygen
- Part of life-care fee paid to
retirement home designated for medical care.
- Prescription medicines (those
requiring a prescription by a doctor for their use by an
individual) and insulin.
- Psychiatric care at a specially
equipped medical center (includes meals and lodging.)
- Social Security tax, Medicare tax,
FUTA, and state employment tax for worker providing medical care
(See Wages for nursing services below.)
- Special items (artifical limbs,
false teeth, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, crutches,
wheelchairs, etc.)
- Special school or home for mentally
or physically disabled persons (see Publication 502)
- Transportation for needed medical
care. (See Publication 17 for details).
- Treatment at at drug or alcohol
center (includes meals and lodging provided by the center.)
- Wages for nursing services ( see
Publication 502)
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- Diaper service
- Expenses for your general health
(even if following you doctor's advice) such as -
- Health club dues
- Household help (even if
recommended
by a doctor.)
- Social activities, such as dancing
orr
swimming lessons.
- Stop smoking program. - Trip for general health
improvement.
- Weight loss program.
- Funeral, burial or cremation
expenses.
- Illegal operation or treatment.
- Life insurance or income protection
policies, or policies providing payment for loss of life, limb,
sight, etc.
- Maternity clothes
- Medical insurance included in a car
insurance policy covering all persons injured in or by your car.
- Medicine you buy without a
prescription.
- Nursing care for a healthy baby.
- Surgery for purely cosmetic reasons.
- Toothpaste, toiletries, cosmetics,
etc.
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