Medical Expense deduction question

FutureMECC · February 2012

Can you include your monthly premium in the medical expenses amount? I know you can't include the employer contribution, but can you write off your own?

Also, I read somewhere you can include travel expenses for medical conferences. Has anyone else done this? What did you or didn't you include? Flight, rental car, hotel, conference fee ect.

Thanks gals!

ToastieSimons · February 2012

Do you pay your medical premiums pre or post tax?

Medical care expenses include the insurance premiums you paid for policies that cover medical care or for a qualified long-term care insurance policy covering qualified long-term care services. If you are an employee, medical expenses do not include that portion of your premiums paid by your employer under its sponsored group accident or health policy or qualified long-term care insurance policy. Further, medical expenses do not include the premiums that you paid under your employer-sponsored policy under a premium conversion policy; for example, a federal employee, participating in the premium conversion program of the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, may not include the premiums paid for the policy as a medical expense.

this is what the irs says about deducting conferences

Payments for admission and transportation to a medical conference relating to a chronic disease that you, your spouse, or your dependents have (if the costs are primarily for and essential to medical care necessitated medical care). However, you may not deduct the costs for meals and lodging while attending the medical conference

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc502.html

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