Do you have an HSA, and did you take distributions to pay for qualified medical expenses? If so, you need to know that TurboTax expects you to enter ALL medical expenses in Schedule A, even though reimbursed by insurance and your HSA.
TurboTax automatically subtracts the amount of your HSA distribution (the 1099-SA) from your entered medical expenses. This means that unless you have already entered HSA-reimbursed expenses, your total for medical expenses will be artificially low.
So taxpayers with an HSA who take distributions who do not list all HSA-covered expenses should enter a single miscellaneous expense, "HSA adjustment" and the dollar amount of the 1099-SA distribution. This will create a single medical expense that will offset the automatic subtraction by TurboTax of the HSA distribution.
If this is your situation, then perhaps the medical expenses you add will make more of a difference.
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