{"id":706,"date":"2016-10-19T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chriswhalencpa.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2017-04-23T00:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:27:53","slug":"tax-memo-medical-expenses-can-deduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriswhalencpa.com\/tax-memo-medical-expenses-can-deduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Memo &#8211; What Medical Expenses Can You Deduct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I get this question almost everyday. Many people miss out on medical deductions for two reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They believe that they will not have enough to reach the minimum based on IRS restrictions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They don\u2019t know all of the items that are deductible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Important Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> NJ\u2019s restrictions on medical deductions, that they need to exceed 2% of gross income, is much lower than the federal. So, even if there is no federal benefit, many of my clients still get a substantial NJ tax deduction. My suggestion is to always provide me with your total medical related expenses when we meet to go over your tax information.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here is detailed list of qualified medical expenses. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Acupuncture<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Air conditioner necessary for relief from allergies or other respiratory problems (less any increase in the value of your home resulting from installation of air conditioning)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Alcoholism treatment, including inpatient treatment, meals and lodging at a therapeutic center for alcohol addiction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Artificial limbs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Artificial teeth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Birth control pills prescribed by a doctor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Braille books and magazines used by a visually-impaired person<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A clarinet and lessons to treat the improper alignment of a child&#8217;s upper and lower teeth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Contact lenses, including equipment and materials for using contacts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cosmetic surgery, if it&#8217;s necessary to improve a deformity related to a congenital abnormality, accident or disease<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Diet, special. When prescribed by a doctor, you can deduct the extra cost of purchasing special food to alleviate a specific medical condition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Doctor or physician expenses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Drug addiction treatment, including in-patient treatment, meals and lodging at a therapeutic center for drug addiction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Elastic hosiery to treat blood circulation problems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Exercise program if a doctor has recommended it as treatment for a specific condition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Extra rent or utilities for a larger apartment required in order to provide space for a nurse\/attendant<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eye surgery, such as Lasik or a similar procedure, when it is not for cosmetic purposes only<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Guide dog or other animal used by a visually-impaired, hearing-impaired or otherwise physically disabled person<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hospital care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Household help for nursing care services only<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Insurance premiums for medical care coverage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Laboratory fees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lead-based paint removal, including the cost of removing lead-based paints from surfaces when a child has lead poisoning or was previously diagnosed with lead poisoning. (Does not include the cost of repainting.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Legal fees paid to authorize treatment for mental illness<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lifetime care advance payments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lodging expenses while away from home to receive medical care in a hospital or medical facility<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Long-term care insurance and long-term care expenses (there are limitations to what you can deduct)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mattresses and boards bought specifically to alleviate an arthritic condition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Medical aids, including wheelchairs, hearing aids and batteries, eyeglasses, contact lenses, crutches, braces and guide dogs (and their care)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Medical conference admission costs and travel expenses for a chronically ill person or a parent of a chronically ill child to learn about new medical treatments. (But not the cost of meals and lodging while attending the conference)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Medicines and drugs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nursing care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nursing home expenses, including the entire cost of medical care, plus meals and lodging if the main reason for being in the home is to obtain medical care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Oxygen and oxygen equipment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reclining chair bought on a doctor&#8217;s advice by a person with a cardiac condition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Special education; tuition for sending a mentally impaired or physically disabled person to a special school that has resources to relieve the disability<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smoking cessation programs (does not have to be recommended by a physician)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swimming (the cost of therapeutic swimming prescribed by a physician)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telephone (the cost and repair of special telephone equipment for a hearing-impaired person)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Television (the cost of equipment used to display the audio part of a TV program for hearing-impaired persons)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Transplant of an organ (but not hair transplants)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Transportation costs for obtaining medical care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Travel expenses for parents visiting their child in a special school for children with drug problems, where the visits are part of the medical treatment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Weight loss program, if it is recommended by a doctor to treat a specific medical condition or to cure any specific ailment or disease<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Whirlpool baths prescribed by a doctor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wig for the mental health of a patient who has lost his or her hair due to a disease<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">X-ray services<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Please reach out to me without hesitation with any tax,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">business or<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">accounting question,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">and to schedule a consultation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><b>Tax Laws are complex.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It is very easy to make mistakes that can incur penalties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Do you have a Tax, Accounting or Business Question?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Is your CPA or Attorney\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ignoring you?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Call Me Immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">(732) 673-0510.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Remember,<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: #008000;\">\u201cIf We Aren\u2019t Working For You, Then You Aren\u2019t Working At Your Best\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #008000;\">Chris Whalen, CPA<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(732) 673-0510<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">79 Oak Hill Road<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; 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