What Are the Rules for Deducting Medical Expenses?

What are the rules for deducting medical expenses? It is the first time in my basketball career I have had to deal with this. I was a traveling player in minor leagues for about ten years and never had to worry about a doctor’s bill. The teams wanted me healthy and of course covered everything. Now that I am a coach at a high school, it is a different story. Although I still get banged up from practicing with my players. I am doing my homework the best I can online. I have found what seems to be a really thorough website that lists every and any rule I can think of about deducting all sorts of medical expenses. I will not say my bookkeeping is that good, but I do save all my receipts. Maybe with this website and my pile of paperwork I can find out all that I need.

My husband and I are about to do our taxes. This is the first time that we will ever have done them for ourselves and so we have been looking up a lot of information on the Internet about how to file your taxes on your own. I am specifically doing some research right now about deducting medical expenses. This has been a really bad year for our entire family as far as our health has been concerned. Fortunately we are all stable now and I feel very grateful for that. I hope that I can find a little bit of information about this because we have spent tons of money at the doctors and the hospital this year. We have also had to spend a ton of money at pharmacies because every single one of us has had to take medication for some ailment. I hope that I can find the necessary information.