Amount paid (in any mode other than cash) by an individual or HUF to LIC or other insurer to effect or keep in force an insurance on the health of specified person. An individual can also make payment to the Central Government health scheme and/or on account of preventive health check-up.

– In case of Individual – self, spouse, dependent children or parents

– In case of HUF – Any member thereof

1. Deduction for preventive health check-up shall not exceed in aggregate Rs. 5,000.

2. Payment on account of preventive health check-up may be made in cash.

3. Within overall limit, deduction shall also be allowed up to Rs. 30,000 towards medical expenditure incurred on the health of specified person provided such person is a very senior citizen and no amount has been paid to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the health of such person.

4. ‘Senior citizen’ means an individual resident in India who is of the age of sixty years or more at any time during the relevant previous year.

5. ‘Very senior citizen’ means an individual resident in India who is of the age of eighty years or more at any time during the relevant previous year.

a) For self, spouse and dependent children: Up to Rs. 25,000 (Rs. 30,000 if specified person is a senior citizen or very senior citizen)

b) For parents: additional deduction of Rs. 25,000 shall be allowed (Rs. 30,000 if parent is a senior citizen or very super senior citizen)

In case of HUF, up to Rs. 25,000 (Rs. 30,000 if specified person is a senior citizen or very senior citizen).

a) Any expenditure incurred for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependent, being a person with disability

b) Any amount paid or deposited under an approved scheme framed in this behalf by the LIC or any other insurer or the Administrator or the specified company for the maintenance of a dependent, being a person with disability.

Maximum deduction available is Rs. 75,000 (Rs. 1,25,000 in case of severe disability).

“dependant” means—

(i) in the case of an individual, the spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters of the individual or any of them;

(ii) in the case of a HUF, any member thereof,

dependant wholly or mainly on such individual or Hindu undivided family for his support and maintenance, and who has not claimed any deduction under section 80U in computing his total income for the assessment year relating to the previous year.

Expenses actually paid for medical treatment of specified diseases and ailments for:

a) In case of Individual: Assessee himself or wholly dependent spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters

b) In case of HUF: Any member of the family who is wholly dependent upon the family

Maximum deduction up to Rs. 40,000 (Rs. 60,000 in case of senior citizen and Rs. 80,000 in case of very senior citizen)

With effect from assessment year 2016-17, the prescription for medical treatment may be obtained from any specialist doctor not necessarily from a doctor working in Government hospital only.