I paid an IVF treatment with a loan. Can I deduct the total amount that was paid or just the actual payments made to the loan so far?

[maxi_sebio44]

the procedure was paid in full back in December for a total of $13,000. I am currently making payments to the loan company. 

[CherylW]

You can deduct only what you paid in 2017.

This, from IRS Publication 502, Medical and Dental Expenses:

Fertility Enhancement

You can include in medical expenses the cost of the following procedures to overcome an inability to have children.

• Procedures such as in vitro fertilization (including temporary storage of eggs or sperm)

• Surgery, including an operation to reverse prior surgery that prevented the person operated on from having children.