Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

medical expense

1. An expense for medical treatment or healthcare, such as drug costs and health-insurance premiums. ( Medical expenses are tax-deductible to the extent that the amounts (less insurance reimbursements) exceed a certain percentage of adjusted gross income. 2. (usu. pl.) In civil litigation, any one of many possible medical costs that the plaintiff has sustained because of the defendant's allegedly wrongful act, including charges for visits to physicians' offices, medical procedures, hospital bills, medicine, and recuperative therapy. - Often shortened (in pl.) to medicals.