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Rental cars to take disabled son to medical specialists
That would be a deductible medical expense so long as that is the principal purpose of the trip.
Are airfares to another state for surgery deductible under medical travel?
what about airfares for a companion and caretaker for a patient that is in need of surgery?
Yes, the airfare required for medical care is deductible as a medical expense on your Schedule A, subject to certain limitations. Read the excerpts from IRS Publication 502 pasted below for those limitations.
Note that medical expenses are subject to the 7.5% adjusted gross income "threshold", and only count to they exceed that threshold.
Expenses for travel related to medical are explained in IRS Publication 502 at this link, and pasted here for your convenience (with certain parts in bold font).
Transportation
You can include in medical expenses amounts paid for transportation primarily for, and essential to, medical care.
You can include:
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.
Trips
You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay for transportation to another city if the trip is primarily for, and essential to, receiving medical services. You may be able to include up to $50 for each night for each person. You can include lodging for a person traveling with the person receiving the medical care. For example, if a parent is traveling with a sick child, up to $100 per night can be included as a medical expense for lodging. Meals aren't included. See Lodging , earlier.
You can't include in medical expenses a trip or vacation taken merely for a change in environment, improvement of morale, or general improvement of health, even if the trip is made on the advice of a doctor.
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