Health Care Deductible Expenses
The IRS and the Federal Courts have deemed certain
medical and healthcare expenses to be qualified for reimbursement
through Health Savings Accounts (HSA). Please note that DataPath,
Inc., does not intend this list to be comprehensive tax advice.
For more detailed information, please consult IRS
Publication 502 or see your tax advisor.
- Acupuncture
- Alcoholism (treatment)
- Ambulance (hire)
- Autoette or wheelchair
- Blind persons services
- Braces
- Capital expenditures -- Primary purpose must be medical
care, i.e. home modifications for handicapped persons
- Car equipped to accommodate wheelchair and/or handicapped
controls
- Childbirth preparation classes (mother)
- Chiropractors
- Contact lenses, replacement insurance
- Crutches
- Deaf persons -- Hearing aid and batteries, hearing aid
animal and care, lip reading expenses, special education,
modified telephone, etc.
- Dental fees
- Dentures
- Diagnostic fees
- Diapers (adult disposable) used due to severe neurological
disease
- Doctor's fees
- Domestic aid -- rendered by nurse
- Drug addiction recovery
- Drugs (prescription)
- Dyslexia language training
- Elevator alleviation of cardiac condition
- Eyeglasses and examination fee
- Fluoride device (on advice of dentist)
- Halfway house (adjustment to mental hospital)
- Healing services fees
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Hospital care
- Insulin
- Iron lung
- Laboratory fees
- Laetrile (by prescription)
- Lead paint removal
- Legal expenses (authorizing treatment of mental illness)
- Lifetime medical care (prepaid; retirement home)
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- Limbs (artificial)
- Lodging (limited to $50/night)
- Mattress (prescribed for alleviation of arthritis)
- Membership fees (association furnishing medical services,
hospitalization, and clinical care)
- Mentally handicapped person's costs for special home
- Nursing home (medical reasons)
- Nursing services (board and Social Security paid by taxpayers)
- Obstetrical expenses
- Operations (legal)
- Optometrists
- Orthodontia
- Orthopedic shoes (excess costs)
- Osteopaths
- Oxygen/oxygen equipment
- Prosthesis
- Psychiatric care
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Reclining chair for cardiac patient
- Remedial reading
- Retirement home lifetime medical care
- Sanitarium rest home (medical, educational, rehabilitative
services)
- Schools (special, relief, or handicapped)
- Sexual dysfunction treatment
- Surgical fees
- Swimming pool (treatment of polio or arthritis)
- Teeth (artificial)
- Television (closed-caption decoder)
- Therapy treatments (prescribed by a physician)
- Transportation (essentially and primarily for medical
care)
- Vitamins (prescription)
- Wheelchair or autoette
- X-rays
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Deductible Over-the-Counter
Drugs
The IRS and the Federal Courts have deemed certain
over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to be qualified for reimbursement through
Health Savings Accounts (HSA). Please note that DataPath, Inc.,
does not intend this list to be comprehensive tax advice. For more
detailed information, please consult IRS
Publication 502 or see
your tax advisor.
- Antacids
- Allergy medications
- Pain relievers
- Cold medicine
- Anti-diarrhea medicine
- Cough drops and throat lozenges
- Sinus medications and nasal sprays
- Nicotine medications and nasal sprays
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- Pedialyte
- First-aid creams
- Calamine lotion
- Wart removal medication
- Antibiotic ointments
- Suppositories and creams for hemorrhoids
- Sleep aids
- Motion sickness pills
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