medical expense
Cost of treatment
Medical expense refers to costs incurred for healthcare services, treatments, or products—doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, surgery, dental work.
The term appears frequently in insurance policies, tax documents, and financial planning: Medical expenses ate through their savings.
What qualifies as a medical expense varies by context; insurers and tax authorities each draw their own lines around eligible costs.
- billAmount owed, written
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
- insuranceContractual risk coverage
- health insuranceProtection against medical costs
deductible · copay · claim · prior authorization · doctor · doctor visit · prescription · surgery · ambulance · emergency · out-of-pocket · premiums · reimbursement · health savings account · treatment · pharmacy · lab work · costly
- out-of-pocket costsout-of-pocket, copay, copayment, deductible, coinsurance
- tax terms1040, W-2, 1099, W-4, tax refund
- deductionssubtraction, deductive reasoning, inference, conclusion, tax write-off
medical expenseinsurance payout
Compensation from a policy
health savings · disability payment · disability benefit · insurance coverage
medical expensepreventive care
Health maintenance before disease
health maintenance · wellness program · preventive medicine · health promotion · routine checkup
medical, expense, medic, medically, medicine, medicinal, medicinally, medicate, medication