Traveling to medical appointments can be hectic and can eat up your bank account quickly. Luckily, we’ve got some good news for you! With Envoy, you can use pre-tax dollars to cover all those medical transportation expenses.
Use a Senior Transportation Service to Get to Your Medical Appointments
With Envoy’s comprehensive Tucson and Phoenix senior transportation service, it is so much easier and more comfortable to make it to your medical appointment. Whether it is a visit to your physician, nutritionist, or eye doctor; Envoy can get you there on time and with extra care, just as your son, daughter or family member would do. You can reserve in advance for peace of mind, and even request your favorite companion driver! (Subject to availability)
Our compassionate companion drivers will drop you off at the door, wait for you during your appointment, and take you home or to another destination of your choice after your appointment.
Why Use an Assisted Driving Service for Seniors?
Unfortunately, an aging body means more aches and pains. The human body starts to wear out, and you might find yourself having to make frequent medical appointments. Cataracts are a common cause of vision loss for people over the age of 40 and a top cause of medical visits for seniors. Cataracts cause vision to become blurred, therefore making driving conditions much more hazardous. Oncoming headlights can cause a stronger glare for the eyes, which makes driving uncomfortable and a little scary. A senior driving service may be the perfect option for you to still make all of your medical appointments, on your schedule!
Arthritis is another common ailment among senior citizens, which means more trips to the doctor’s office. Arthritis causes joint and muscle pain throughout the body. It can cause discomfort and stiffness in the hands, which affects driving ability. If you are suffering from arthritis, you might be finding that driving is just too painful. Typically the first option many think of is a family member who can assist you with the drive, getting in and out of your appointment and perhaps to pick up medication at the pharmacy after. Although, with tight time schedules, limited hours for making appointments or in the case of long distance, you may need the next best thing to family, and that is Envoy America’s senior transportation in Phoenix and Tucson.
Even if you are not necessarily struggling with either of these ailments, there are other reasons to utilize a senior transportation service when traveling to medical appointments. If medication or treatments make you dizzy or queasy, then Envoy could be a solution for you. Envoy companion drivers offer extra assistance, a helping hand and compassion to all of our riders. They will help you to and from the car and make sure you’re comfortable during your outing.
I Need to Get Medication After my Appointment
No problem! Envoy companion drivers will assist you and take you to pick up your prescription after your medical appointment. Envoy’s added senior services, such as multiple stops, make outings to the doctor hassle free. You can see your physician, pick up medication and receive treatments all in the same trip. We are unlike any other senior driving service!
Your Medical Transportation Costs can be Fully Covered by Pre-Tax*
You can use pre-tax to cover your medical transportation expenses such as Envoy’s senior transportation services in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ. Medical expenses can cover multiple types of transportation options such as bus rides, taxis, ambulances etc. Our senior driving service fits into this category as well, which can help you save money on your transportation needs, or cover your costs all together.
Here is a quick overview for medical transportation:
Medical Transportation: Including Senior Transportation Envoy America
You can include in medical expenses amounts paid for transportation primarily for, and essential to, medical care.
This Can Include:
Ride service, 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.
Car Expenses
You can include out-of-pocket expenses, such as the cost of gas and oil, when you use a car for medical reasons. You can’t include depreciation, insurance, general repair, or maintenance expenses. If you don’t want to use your actual expenses for 2016, you can use the standard medical mileage rate of 19 cents a mile. You can also include parking fees and tolls. You can add these fees and tolls to your medical expenses whether you use actual expenses or the standard mileage rate.
Here is an Example:
In 2016, Bill Jones drove 2,800 miles for medical reasons. He spent $450 for gas, $30 for oil, and $100 for tolls and parking. He wants to figure the amount he can include in medical expenses both ways to see which gives him the greater deduction.
He figures the actual expenses first. He adds the $450 for gas, the $30 for oil, and the $100 for tolls and parking for a total of $580.
He then figures the standard mileage amount. He multiplies 2,800 miles by 19 cents a mile for a total of $532. He then adds the $100 tolls and parking for a total of $632.
Bill includes the $632 of car expenses with his other medical expenses for the year because the $632 is more than the $580 he figured using actual expenses.
Transportation expenses you can’t include. You can’t include in medical expenses the cost of transportation in the following situations.
Going to and from work, even if your condition requires an unusual means of transportation.
Travel for purely personal reasons to another city for an operation or other medical care.
Travel that is merely for the general improvement of one’s health.
The costs of operating a specially equipped car for other than medical reasons.
Coverage for 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. However, see Medical Conferences, earlier.
Full IRS Guildlines
*Please read in full on the official IRS website: tax deductions for medical expenses. Our statements are a summery and guild, you are fully responsible for making sure that your actions and claims are in full alignment with IRS guidelines.