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We've ended up deducting overseas medical expenses for a number of years and have built a routine for doing it. Get the receipt of whatever sort for the procedure. Get a printout that shows the current exchange rate for foreign currency to US dollars. Make sure you include whatever fees you paid to the credit card company or bank transfer agencies. Remember that you can deduct for hotel and travel expense for the patient only, not any accompanying people. Be careful about tacking "touristy" on to your medical trip to make it easy to justify to the IRS that you traveled for medical and happened to take time to see something rather than you traveled for tourism and happened to get a medical procedure done. Consider getting some kind of CV or discussion about your surgeon's experience to point out why it was important for you to travel to get work done by them. The latter is less important but could be useful if you get into an argument over why you traveled.