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Yes. Your transportation is deductible as long as it was primarily for medical care. If it required you rent a car to obtain the medical care, it can be deducted. You can deduct the amounts required for the medical care for yourself, spouse, or any dependent on your tax return.
"You can include in medical expenses amounts paid for transportation primarily for, and essential to, medical care.
Bus, taxi, train, or plane fares or ambulance service,
Transportation expenses of a parent who must go with a child who needs medical care,
Transportation expenses of a nurse or other person who can give injections, medications, or other treatment required by a patient who is traveling to get medical care and is unable to travel alone, and
Transportation expenses for regular visits to see a mentally ill dependent, if these visits are recommended as a part of treatment.
In order to deduct medical expenses, you must itemize deductions on Schedule A, and your unreimbursed medical expenses must exceed 10 percent of your adjusted gross income (AGI). Then, you can only deduct the amount by which your unreimbursed medical expenses exceed this 10 percent threshold (7.5% of AGI for age 65 and older until 2017).
Please see the following link for a comprehensive list of deductible medical expenses. IRS Medical Expenses